Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After meeting for four hours in Holyoke Center behind locked doors, the faculty reversed its position Wednesday night and acceded to student requests that it delay its review of the punishments until after the entire Law School community had discussed the Board's procedures and decisions...
...Before the month is out, President Nixon is supposed to reply to an Israeli request for 24 more Phantom jets and 80 Skyhawks to offset the sale of nearly 110 French Mirages and trainers to Libya. U.S. officials insisted that the Abu Zabal raid would not delay the decision. But a postponement would surprise nobody, for Nixon is bound to be faulted no matter what he decides. If he sells more jets to the Israelis, the Arabs warn that they might move against the American companies that now pump some $2.5 billion in oil from Arab wells annually. If Nixon...
Planned Violence. The trial took place under the eye of a 74-year-old judge with a penchant for becoming personally involved in the matters before him. U.S. District Judge Julius Hoffman, no kin to Abbie, refused to delay the trial for seven weeks so that Black Panther Scale could be represented by his regular lawyer, Charles Garry, then about to be hospitalized. When Scale repeatedly shouted for the right to defend himself, Hoffman had him bound and gagged, and eventually handed him a four-year sentence for contempt. The judge severed Scale's case, thus reducing the Chicago...
...generally agreed that the longer the jury deliberates, the better the chances for the defendants. However, defense attorney William Kunstler said a very long delay can mean the jurors are "bargaining away the rights of some defendants to reach agreement on the others...
...accountants are rising to greater glory, salesmen are under new pressure. They are finding that the telephone is no longer a substitute for a personal visit. "They have to become salesmen again," says Eugene Jannuzi, chairman of Pennsylvania's Moltrup Steel Products Co. There is a much longer delay between a customer's inquiries and the actual placement of orders. Robert Dickey III, president of Pittsburgh's barge-making Dravo Corp., complains that customers now wait until the last minute to seal deals that would have been immediately snapped up six months...