Word: delayer
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Then on Jan. 17 President Carter stepped into the legislative process. He asked House Speaker Tip O'Neill to delay consideration of a rule that would allow the postal bill to come to the floor for a vote. This is a highly unusual attempt by the White House to prevent congressional deliberation of an important national question...
...combination of internal complications and uncertainty about the convention's role and strategy have caused the delay. Establishing bylaws, for example, became a two-week affair. First a committee established to decide on rules of procedure for the convention met and hashed out decisions on voting rights, quorum size and other issues. Then the full convention, in a classic display of Monday-morning quarterbacking, proceeded to debate the by-laws item by item, and after two meetings agreed on an amended version that looked suspiciously like the original version...
...meantime, a group of landowners alarmed by this prospect initiated an enormous lobbying campaign against enforcement, complete with full page ads in the Washington Post. They went to court and argued that an environmental impact statement (which would delay enforcement by at least a year) was required before the rules could be carried out. A federal district court in Fresno, California ruled in their favor. Taylor, a champion of the 160-acre restriction since the 1920's, has dismissed the lawsuit as "another one of their delaying tactics. If you include human beings in the environmental impact, the result...
Edward Lashman, the University's director of external projects, said yesterday the division's delay is "a little disappointing...
Mitchell T. Rabkin '51, director of the Beth Israel Hospital, said the guidelines, which hospital officials had earlier predicted the Beth Israel board of trustees would approve this month, will probably not come before the board until June as a result of the delay...