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Word: delayer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Signed Document. Last April, having waited the proper time, Mrs. Michaels took her case to a Chicago judge who declared Michaels dead. Mrs. Michaels then returned to the SSA office to get her money. After a two-month delay, an SSA official told her: "Your husband is alive. That's all I can tell you right now." Mrs. Michaels demanded to know more. The SSA refused, citing HEW section 1306 that forbids anyone to look into anyone else's personal file. Mrs. Michaels was sent a form letter refusing any claim for her husband's benefits, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Dead or Alive? | 11/17/1975 | See Source »

From the looks of things Harvard may have its hands full trying to get all that data, with the projected figures on construction impacts almost impossible to obtain or even predict. The secretary's order will most likely cause at least a few weeks' delay before construction on the plant can begin...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Harvard May Outmuscle the State | 11/8/1975 | See Source »

...legal route may be the environmentalists' best hope. So far NEPA has delayed construction but its usefulness is limited. Specialists in environmental law say that it is difficult to win a "second generation" NEPA case--a challenge of the federal government's final decision once it has met the "first generation" or procedural NEPA requirements to assess impact. Fortunately the Sierra Club's suit is based on other environmental laws that may allow the club's lawyers to delay the project indefinitely or even kill it entirely...

Author: By Charlie Shepard, | Title: Disney World in the High Sierra | 10/30/1975 | See Source »

...getting interested in upcoming municipal elections in Cambridge may be disappointed to learn that in Cambridge no one can be sure of who has won a seat on the city council or the school committee until almost a week after the election is over. The reason for the delay is nothing so common or devious as wrangling over graveyard votes; it just takes a week to count the votes under the complex Proportional Representation system that Cambridge still uses to elect local officials...

Author: By Christopher B. Daly, | Title: Riding the Trolley Car Of Proportional Voting | 10/30/1975 | See Source »

...Prime Minister Indira Gandhi proclaimed a state of emergency in India and assumed authoritarian powers. Today critics of her policies-including some in Washington -are taking a cautious second look. This month a joint Indo-U.S. commission, designed to promote better relations, convened in Washington after a long delay. At the time, President Ford emphasized that Washington had great interest in the "strength, progress and economic viability of India." He said he was still anxious to visit India. TIME New Delhi Bureau Chief William Smith recently toured the country and cabled this assessment of Indian democracy under the emergency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Emergency: A Needed Shock | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

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