Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Guzzler Tax Carter proposed slapping penalty taxes on people who buy big, energy-inefficient cars starting next year. The Senate voted last week to delay the tax to 1980-but to make it practically confiscatory. Its bill would place a stunning $10,000 tax in 1980 on each new car that got less than 16 m.p.g., which would have the same effect as banning production outright...
...administration should have appointed Lance to as important a post as director of OMB. What he lacked in budget experience he compensated for with his close ties to President Carter. Though Carter may value his advice, and loyalty is always an admirable quality, the president's delay in taking action on Lance seems to be hypocritical coming from the man who asked, "Why not the best?" At best, the Lance affair may serve as a lesson for future presidents who value friendship over ability and the national interest...
PRESIDENT BOK'S appointment of John P. Reardon Jr. '60 as Harvard's director of athletics has settled one of the University's more embarrassing controversies, but the problems in the Athletic Department are not over. The inexcusable delay and non-stop politicking that preceded Reardon's selection demonstrate that the department still faces conflicting demands for its limited resources, from both adherents of a strong intercollegiate program and those who favor more intramural and recreational facilities for undergraduates and graduate students alike. This conflict, which in part forced the University's first choice as athletic director to withdraw from...
...proposed building design for athletic facility fits the requirements of all three zoning classifications under discussion, and a change in the zoning map might only delay the granting of a building permit...
...Primarily, says the NERC, because "overlapping and conflicting" Government regulations delay construction of generating and transmission facilities. The utilities especially complain that "lack of timely and adequate rate relief (meaning approval of higher rates) endangers their ability to raise the $250 billion to $300 billion of new construction capital required in the next ten years. Also, the utilities foresee a fuel shortage. Meeting the nation's power needs, says the NERC, would require more than doubling coal output, to 1.3 billion tons by 1986. The utilities demand that the Government move faster in leasing federally owned Western land...