Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...board also had the option of using the special waiver--if they don't use it in these circumstances when will they use it." Washburn added. "The guy who knew the boy well recommended delay and a group of people who don't know him or even live in the Yard go against that recommendation. Who are these people?" Washburn said...
...point was that if the judges controlled more closely the progress of the litigation, it would put an end to protracted delay. I compared the 14 years it took me to try the Famous Players Lasky Corporation case, where there was no judicial control, with the three-year period that because of Judge Weinfeld's careful control would obviously see the complete disposal of the merger case (Bethlehem/ Youngstown...
Mindful of that sentiment, both Byrd and O'Neill urged Carter to delay presenting the package to Congress. The President at first seemed adamant. At his midweek press conference he warned that if Congress rejected part of the package, then "my intent is to withdraw the sales proposal altogether." His reasoning, as Press Secretary Jody Powell explained later, was that if commitments to both sides were not honored, U.S. standing in the Middle East would be damaged...
...favor of the program, people questioned earlier by Gallup pollsters declared 9 to 1 that it was more important to control inflation than to trim taxes. As a result, strong pressure is building in Congress to reduce the cut to $18 billion or $20 billion, and perhaps to delay it by three months as well, making it effective Jan. 1. Those two moves would pare the fiscal 1979 deficit from the $61 billion that Carter has budgeted to less than $50 billion...
...Life's 1 million policy holders voted by a 5-to-1 ratio to transfer the headquarters to Toronto, Canada's bustling financial capital. Sun Life (assets: $5.5 billion) thus became the biggest company to move out of Quebec, although it has promised the federal government to delay any large transfer of staff for two years. Eventually, the move could cost Montreal 1,800 Sun Life jobs...