Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...somehow considered an affront, a failure of medicine, or of right living. Disease, poverty and other ancient afflictions simply are not accepted as part of the human condition. Perhaps rightly so-and yet the conviction that they can be banished completely is a tremendous burden because each setback, each delay, is seen as a personal or national failure. That is partly why we Americans are so impatient with the study of history-because history is a reminder of fate. We would rather learn to do than learn to know...
...monarchs have a hereditary right to rule their subjects? The author argues that dynasties are founded by "nothing better than the principal ruffian of some restless gang." Does America depend on Britain for safety or prosperity? Only in "the credulous weakness of our minds." Would it be better to delay? "Every thing that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'TIS TIME TO PART...
...researchers are certain enough about the safety of the extract to make it available to humans. The last promising technique for controlling herpes -daubing the skin eruptions with a photosensitive dye and exposing them to fluorescent light (TIME, July 12, 1971) -quickly dried up the sores and seemed to delay their recurrence. But it was largely abandoned when researchers demonstrated that the treatment produced chromosomal changes in the virus that enabled it to transform normal animal test cells into malignant ones...
...Supreme Court, like many lower courts in the land, is mortifyingly behind in its work. Only once has the court found it necessary to delay beyond the end of June adjudication of a case argued during its regular nine-month term. That came two years ago in the Detroit cross-district school segregation controversy, a case of extraordinary complexity. Moreover, the Justices were then on the threshold of one of the most important cases in Supreme Court history, the U.S. vs. Richard Nixon. But even with eleven decisions announced last week, the court still has not rendered judgments...
...that about 10% of the 30,800 welds were questionable, and that X rays of 895 were "falsified," inadequate or nonexistent. Yet the consortium says that only 28 of the welds are actually defective and need to be repaired, which might cost up to $10 million but would not delay the pipeline's opening. The companies concede that more than 1,000 welds need further study to see if they pose any environmental danger. To inspect all the welds would postpone the opening of the line for many months...