Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Short Delay. In the light of this evidence, NRC scientists believe that some if not most uses of fluorocarbon sprays will eventually have to be curtailed. But the committee stopped short of advocating an immediate ban. Instead, it recommended a delay of not more than two years, during which science could learn even more about the sprays' effects on the ozone layer. The suggestion makes sense. Scientists are still uncertain about the rate at which ozone is destroyed or replaced and need time to learn more about atmospheric chemistry. Nor is a two-year delay thought to be dangerous...
...taken four years of haggling about the language and terms of the non-merger merger agreement--until last spring--before Harvard and Radcliffe could start negotiating the shape of Radcliffe's future. Unlike many people on the Radcliffe side of the negotiations, Horner does not attribute the four-year delay to any maliciousness on Harvard's part...
...audience took the delay with good humor. It was, after all, a proud evening for Washington...
...because "you cannot protect your priorities unless you learn to decline, tactfully but firmly, every request that does not contribute to your goal." One can fight procrastination, too, by (a) chopping up ominously large tasks into easily manageable small components; (b) listing the reasons for delay on one side of a piece of paper and the benefits from completing the job on the other-and then feel ashamed of your irrational lethargy; or (c) picking an important, if unpleasant, chore and completing it the first thing every day. According to Bliss, that will soon break the procrastinating habit...
...last month the conference agreed on a multiracial interim government to prepare for independence on Dec. 31, 1978. Kissinger rightly called the decision "a major breakthrough" because "the principle of independence has now been accepted." Black African states were still not satisfied, however, because of the two-year delay, the lack of U.N.-supervised free elections, and because the South West African Peoples' Organization (SWAPO), the territory's most powerful political organization, was not represented at the Windhoek conference. Kissinger obviously believed Vorster could be persuaded to make further concessions. Indeed, Pretoria hinted last week that Vorster might...