Word: delayer
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...slow, erratic, or simply nonexistent at river houses (unless you wed yourself to your entryway’s router). The College’s explanation for this phenomenon is that the wireless network is experiencing unexpected overuse, and they believe that the problem will be fixed by October. The delay is, to say the least, quite inconvenient. But what is more unsettling is the flabby lack of resourcefulness that this situation has revealed in students at the (second) best university in the world. I too have been afflicted with a sort of wireless-induced intellectual sloth. Unable to log onto...
...NASA officials say similar space junk has probably followed previous shuttles home, unnoticed and unscrutinized. But on a mission whose departure was beset by a fuel cell malfunction, a lightning strike on the launch pad and an approaching hurricane, the delay caused by the debris threatened to mar what has otherwise been a successful mission. After a four-year delay following the destruction of Space Shuttle Columbia, astronauts have finally resumed the construction of the International Space Station, installing 35,000 pounds of solar arrays and trusses. Fourteen more missions are needed to finish the job by 2010, when...
...franchise’s attorney, Vincent J. Panico, said the delay was caused by a kitchen-equipment supplier who declared bankruptcy in the midst of construction...
...Since they began to be announced last Wednesday, satisfaction over the verdicts has been tempered by frustration over the delay in delivering them. "It's a sign of complete failure that it's taken so long," says Ajai Sahni, executive director of the Institute for Conflict Management, a New Delhi-based security think tank. While the trial was carried out by a special terrorism court meant to sidestep India's notoriously clogged judicial system, it still took more than a decade to plow through 26,000 pages of evidence and testimony from 600 witnesses. In the meantime, 12 defendants have...
...there to stay. In 1982, she ran for state treasurer. As one Texas newspaper coyly described it this week, she had "discovered" the old-style Democratic incumbent was under investigation by the Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle (yes, the same Ronnie Earle that's going after Tom DeLay these days). "Discovery" was no doubt one of those skills she mastered at that round table. Her opponent imploded; she won handily...