Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first step toward recognition, Brandt has suggested that East and West Germany apply for separate United Nations membership (neither is now a member). After that, he hopes to delay further action, at least for a while, by taking refuge in a West German legal technicality which holds that there is a level of relations called Staatsrechtliche Anerkennung (state recognition), stopping just short of diplomatic recognition. Though he has already conceded that East Germany exists as a separate state, Brandt wants to avoid the final stage of recognition until East Germany has agreed to what he calls "human, practical improvements...
...from Philippine politicians, many of whom have been suggesting for years that the Yankees go home. In Korea, however, the reaction was quite different. President Chung Hee Park and Premier Chung II Kwon berated the U.S. for its decision. The Premier threatened to resign if the U.S. did not delay the withdrawal until 1976 and pledge $1 billion in military aid spread over five years to upgrade Korea's own forces...
There was nothing unprecedented about the delay. Joseph Stalin once let 13 turbulent years go by between congresses. Nonetheless, the fact that Brezhnev had announced only eleven days earlier that the congress would meet this year provoked a flurry of speculation. Kremlinologists in Moscow and other capitals, the more realistic of whom rate themselves and their confreres on their varying degrees of ignorance, produced several hypotheses...
...Angeles, the San Fernando Valley and other areas of Southern California. It is the company that residents love to hate. Public phones are often out of order, private phone bells ring for no reason, strange buzzes come through receivers, conversations are abruptly dis connected, and the slightest delay in paying the bill brings harsh dunning...
...past, hospital authorities would have had to negotiate with the patient's next of kin to obtain organs for transplant, and the organs might have deteriorated and become unusable before permission was obtained. There was no such delay at the Utah hospital. Informed by the patient's wife about the donor card, surgeons were able to operate on him as soon as he was pronounced legally dead.* They removed both kidneys for transplant and both eyes for cornea grafts. Within a few hours, one of each was used for transplants in other patients...