Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even so, the effort served to prolong the already drawn-out and heated Damascus meeting. Finally, late in the week, Syrian President Hafez Assad asked Vance to delay his scheduled arrival in Syria by 24 hours, until after the hardline Arabs had gone home...
Aware of the peril, Robert Strauss last month huddled in Washington with congressional leaders in an effort to get an interim bill that would delay the duties. To his dismay, he found the mood on Capitol Hill running so strong against freer trade that he feared the bill would be either killed or encrusted with various protectionist amendments. He reported this to the Europeans and received the rocket from Haferkamp...
High building costs over the past several years, general inflation, and a Corporation policy of giving housing improvements to the Quad have all worked together to delay much-needed improvements in various River Houses, Ann B. Spence, associate dean of the College, said...
Irrational opposition to nuclear power can only delay a solution to America's energy problems. But even if this opposition ends, some positive action is also essential. If the U.S. is to be assured of energy for the future, the present nuclear licensing process must be sensibly simplified. It is a byzantine snarl that Boston Attorney Thomas Dignan describes as "a full-employment bill for lawyers." Dignan's legal work for the Seabrook plant has generated a 5-ft. shelf of transcripts from a state hearing, 20 3-in.-thick volumes of applications to the federal Nuclear Regulatory...
Another idea is to delay for a year increases in the federal minimum wage-from $2.65 an hour to $2.90-and in Social Security taxes scheduled for January. Miller last week urged Congress to do just that, and he has allies in the Administration who calculate that the delays would knock a full percentage point off next year's inflation rate. But the delays would so anger-labor and old people that the Administration is not expected to ask for them. Most likely it will merely pass the word that it is not opposed to delays and hope that...