Word: delayer
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...three unique floodgate systems to stop storm surges from riding into the city via the three drainage canals breached after Katrina. The Corps admitted last week that two of the three floodgates it was building for the job would not be finished on June 1, as promised. The anticipated delay--a month in the case of one gate structure--has made people in New Orleans nervous, if not downright angry...
...about Xeroxing exams “has always been clear and unambiguous.” A handbook distributed to faculty and available online says “all courses are expected to handle the printing and photocopying of their own examinations.” To make up for the delay, students were given a choice on the short-answer portion of the exam; they only had to answer 50 of the 65 points. Exam time was reduced from the traditional three hours to two. “Really our main objective was to get all of the students...
...submit a voter's application, he maintains, the law discourages people or groups from destroying the registration forms of people with differing political views. (Weiser points out that Florida already had a law on the books to address that problem.) And if a hurricane hits, any fine due to delay or destruction can be appealed, he says. "If a hurricane blew a building away, I can't imagine they're going to get somebody for that," Posey says. "I think common sense would prevail. If there is a nuclear holocaust I think the last thing people are going...
Benjamin Franklin once said, “You may delay, but time will not”—words that must sting Undergraduate Council (UC) members ensnared in an 11th hour restructuring quagmire.As early as last November’s UC elections, we knew that the expected creation of an independent social programming board would endanger the existence and role of the Campus Life Committee (CLC). The issue, however, was repeatedly dismissed by the UC. And now that the College Events Board (CEB) has rendered the CLC obsolete, the series of emergency council meetings held during reading period...
...something like that happened we’d have a guy ready to go.”...The first of Calvert’s three goals on Saturday struck the net with such force that it actually tore a hole in the goal, causing a slight delay in the game. Fittingly, Calvert holds the team-lead in points, having scored 38 on the season.—Staff writer Malcom A. Glenn can be reached at mglenn@fas.harvard.edu...