Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday upheld the court-ordered integration program for Boston schools and accused the Boston school committee of "resistance, defiance and delay...
...knew if he placed the time of the accident at 1 a.m. it would destroy his story about driving Mary Jo to the ferry and her motel in Edgartown. What motives would the press assign to a handsome Senator alone with a woman at one in the morning? The delay in reporting the accident can be attributed more to fear than it can be to an involved and co-ordinated conspiracy...
While Lokev protested the officiating, referee Lloyd Gilmour penalized the Russian team two minutes for delay of game...
Thus when Alfrink approached the retirement age of 75, Pope Paul faced a delicate decision. One solution would have been to ask Alfrink to stay on and delay the appointment, perhaps so that Monsignor Karen Kastell, a Dutch moderate in the Vatican evangelism office, could be made a bishop and groomed for Alfrink's job. The favored candidate of the Dutch hierarchy was Alfrink's top assistant in Utrecht, Anton Vermeulen. But the Curia found Vermeulen too independent-minded, and Paul may also have been reluctant to appear to recognize any right of the Dutch bishops to pick...
Fluor's formula for success starts with a strong tradition of meeting tight construction schedules-a big attraction because a month's delay on a $100 million project can easily cost the builder $1.5 million. The firm also makes a habit of training local workers to build and run completed facilities, a practice that has been much appreciated by the governments of Greece, Taiwan, Indonesia and South Korea. Partly for these reasons, Iran recently favored Fluor with a contract to build 65% of a $750 million refinery near Isfahan...