Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...huge military force, derived from U.S. aid. Sadat wants the U.S. to sell Egypt up to 120 F-5E fighter planes, priced at about $5 million each, to replace the deteriorating planes acquired from the Russians since 1955. But even more urgently, Sadat's advisers want the U.S. to delay indefinitely compliance with an Israeli request for the more sophisticated $10 million F-16 fighter. "To introduce this aircraft into the Middle East would create a dangerous military escalation," an Egyptian official warned. Carter's top Defense and State Department advisers have urged him to grant Sadat's requests...
...delay was unexpected. Counting on a last-minute reprieve, representatives of 54 U.S. oil companies gathered at the New York Hilton, envelopes containing their bids tucked in locked briefcases. A moment before the bidding was to begin, Frank Basile, manager of the Bureau of Land Management's Outer Continental Shelf Office, told the oilmen that Interior would not appeal and the sale...
...federal court ruling banning Baltimore Canyon drilling. Resolution of the Georges Bank dispute will take longer. Environmentalists and public officials in Massachusetts and on Long Island insist that they are not trying to prevent offshore oil production permanently. But they make it clear that they intend to delay drilling until they are satisfied their coastlines and fisheries are being properly protected...
...proposed changes, which the party's National Committee is expected to approve at an April meeting, was the recommendation that all delegate selection take place within a period of 14 weeks or less-from the second Tuesday in March to the second Tuesday in June. That would delay, and downgrade in symbolic importance, Iowa's January delegate caucus, where Jimmy Carter first won national attention in 1976. To help build a party consensus, the commission further recommended that no candidate be awarded convention delegates unless he had received at least 15% of the vote cast in caucuses...
...worldwide balance between supply and demand that a downturn in Soviet production could throw petroleum markets into chaos and set off skyrocketing price rises as a result of a punishing competition for existing supplies. On the other hand, an increase in Moscow's output could help delay an energy crunch until new power sources, notably nuclear and solar, can reduce world dependence on petroleum...