Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...company was still obliged to clean up its mess by Oct. 19. But the decontamination process was slow, and much time was spent in bickering with state officials over the amount of tritium lost. The company asked for a 13-month extension. A delay was permissible, but the danger uncertain. What to do? For Democratic Governor Bruce Babbitt, 41, the answer was obvious and unprecedented: declare a state of emergency and call in the National Guard...
...June 30 cutoff date for the Cambodian incursion. Eventually, 32,000 U.S. ground troops were involved. But, Kissinger says, casualties "never reached more than a quarter of the 800 a week that Laird had feared," and dropped sharply after that. At the time, Kissinger estimated that the action would delay Hanoi's next major offensive by six to eight months; Sir Robert Thompson, the British expert on guerrilla warfare, figured that it would set the North Vietnamese back by as much as two years. Thompson proved to be right. But that did not help to defuse a gathering explosion...
Kain said the delay in the accreditation renewal "was never a terrible and calamitous thing in our mind. It's one of those which at one level really isn't important. But it's a lot easier to have the accreditation than to have to explain to 200 million people out there that it isn't a great issue...
Coddington said the University will delay shipments of waste, adding that it will make other arrangements if the site remains closed for a longer period...
...hands of departmental heads then, the legislation is a dead letter. But the reforms did set up a student-faculty committee to review regularly the tutorial program and report discrepancies to the dean's office. These committees must act forcefully, persistently and without delay if tutorial reform is ever to benefit Harvard's students...