Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Graduate School of Design faculty voted 13-12 Wednesday to delay until next fall its resolution of the seven-year-old charges of a former faculty member that the GSD did not rehire him in 1969 for personal and political reasons...
Those who opposed the motion to postpone also argued that the issues and facts of the case had been laid out by Hartman's previous statements and the two committee reports. However, the Academic Policy Committee disagreed, favoring Hartman's request for a delay that passed after an hour-long debate...
With the increasing repression of the military regimes and the delay of their democratic aspirations, the Latin American people may lose confidence in the methods and solutions of liberal democracies and become more and more attracted to armed struggle, as the growing popularity of leftist groups among the Argentine working class indicates. Latin America may overcome one of the darkest periods in its history only after a long and bloody struggle. The United States will then look back on the democratic alternative presented by Allende and lament that it didn't support it when it still had a chance...
...bill gives labor too much and business too little influence in campaign financing; as a result, he opposes it, even though he badly needs the funds it would release. At week's end President Ford was still pondering whether to sign or veto the bill. The new delay, of course, did nothing to improve his opponent's condition...
...reputed receptiveness to an increased Syrian military presence to restore order in Lebanon. After succeeding in getting the election postponed for one week, Jumblatt and his choice for President, Raymond Edde, 63, a Christian who had opposed Syrian intervention, kept up a running drumfire last week to delay the election until what they called Syrian "pressure" to secure Sarkis' election had ended. When they failed to halt the proceedings, both Edde and his supporters boycotted the session...