Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...threatening the Atomic Energy Commission: "I think that the AEC must be made to realize that I am dedicated to the minimum request made of them [to delay the explosion]. That if they do not grant it, I will ally myself completely with the all-out anti-bomb faction throughout the entire U.S. That this group had only been waiting for a strong leader and I am ready to dedicate the rest of my life and every cent I possess in a complete no quarter fight to outlaw all nuclear testing of every kind and everywhere...
...Republican side, Reagan has raised $5.5 million, including $1.6 million in matching funds, but he has spent virtually every penny of it. Last week he canceled his Boeing 727 charter plane because of the Government's delay in paying federal grants. He has a bid in for $203,000 and will soon request $300,000 more to match the money he raised privately in March and April. Even President Ford, who has raised $7,724,033, including $1,952,615 in federal matching grants, is waiting for the FEC to hand over another $745,000 to which...
...CONTINUING TO stall for time in a situation in which delay is on the side of Bishop Abel Muzorewa--head of the ANC's more militant "external faction"--Smith has probably destroyed the last chance for the peaceful installation of a majority regime. He has driven even the most moderate black leaders into Muzorewa's camp. Nationalist guerilla attacks from Mozambique and Zambia on Rhodesian forces have been intensifying steadily, white emigration has been increasing and the national economy is severely hampered by a lack of foreign exchange owing to United Nations sanctions. Barring massive outside aid from...
Their pressure last month forced President Bok to delay construction and delegate Charles U. Daly, vice president for government and community affairs, to conduct a review of the situation...
Richard B. Johnson '36, a Lampoon trustee, attributed the delay in part to a last minute change in the award's definition...