Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the harvest on the Great Plains, it is not unusual to cut at night. A few days' delay in cutting ready wheat makes little difference to the wheat; it is the weather that can be the problem. Summer storms often send huge hailstones, smashing car windshields, denting tin roofs, flattening wheatfields. They are so common that once a farmer's wheat is ready, he wants it harvested. And tonight is a whole lot better than tomorrow...
...President's House and walked outside, they could not help but feel a little nervous, for less than 100 feet away more than 1000 students were holding an anti-apartheid rally. In the hope of taking the steam out of the protests, the Corporation decided to delay releasing its decision for two days. Despite the delay, the release of the decision rejecting student demands for divestiture set the stage for the largest student demonstration at Harvard in five years as more than 3000 students participated in a peaceful torchlight march that night. And the next day, April 28, students encircled...
...choosing the latest possible start for the conclave, the Cardinals gave themselves ample time to size up one another, as they have already done to an unprecedented degree at various international meetings that stemmed from the Second Vatican Council. The delay also provides ample opportunity for the 80-and-over Cardinals to influence the conclave from which they are barred. The elders generally prefer a flags-flying conservative, but even the most prominent man in that camp, the Vatican's Pericle Felici, 67, is widely considered unelectable. So they would be likely to turn to a moderate who tilts...
...courts from being swamped by criminal trials without the supposedly essential practice of plea bargaining? Unlike urban courts already streamlined to cope with heavy case loads, Alaska courts had sufficient slack to absorb more trials. Efficiency techniques instituted 16 months before the ban continued to whittle down court delay. More careful screening out of weak cases also helped. But the main reason Alaska's courts could keep up is that defendants continued to plead guilty in droves. The percentage of accused choosing to exercise their right to trial increased only from 6.7% to 9.6%. Why? "Because defendants know they...
...center of a debate that has raged since March 1977, when the Food and Drug Administration announced?largely on the basis of tests on rats?that it was planning to ban the artificial sweetener. Deluged with complaints from food manufacturers and consumers, Congress imposed an 18-month delay on the ban. Now come two reports that question the wisdom of any prohibition of saccharin...