Word: delayer
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Harvard fundraisers have pushed back the public launch of the University’s multi-billion-dollar capital campaign, according to a major alumni donor who has spoken to members of the Harvard Corporation about the delay...
...hasn't been bad for business. - By Peter Gumbel Leapfrogging Rock Stars When British rockers Coldplay released the first track off their new CD last week, you could almost sense the relief at record label EMI. Chairman Eric Nicoli partly blamed a 13% dip in annual profits on the delay of the group's latest album. All the more irritating, then, that Crazy Frog's Axel F, mixing the theme tune from the Beverly Hills Cop movie with an infuriating mobile-phone ring tone - think two-stroke scooters voiced by an animated frog - outsold Coldplay's single fourfold last week...
RULED ILLEGAL. The bookkeeping of BILL CEVERHA, 68, treasurer of Texans for a Republican Majority, a political-action committee formed by U.S. House majority leader Tom DeLay; in a civil suit brought by five losing Democratic candidates in 2002 Texas legislative races; in Austin. District Judge Joseph Hart ruled that in failing to report more than $500,000 in corporate political contributions-money used to boost DeLay's G.O.P. majority-Ceverha violated Texas election code. It's the first major ruling implicating someone linked to DeLay, who is embroiled in a series of ethical controversies...
Unfortunately, this compromise could be merely a delay before an inevitable showdown over the filibuster. The key to this compromise is the ambiguous phrase extraordinary circumstances, and the danger is that Republicans could interpret this phrase as, Democrats can keep the filibuster as long as they never use it. Especially in the event of a Supreme Court vacancy, arguments over a contentious judicial nomination could degenerate into a Filibuster: Round Two debate...
...nearly 90 million vehicles that are expected to speed over U.S. roads by 1972. With fewer curves, no crossroads and a wide center strip, the super system is expected to save 3,500 lives annually, reduce accident costs by $725 million, save commercial operators another $825 million by cutting delay ... Motorists will be able to drive from Los Angeles to New York over the federal network without passing a single traffic light or intersection. --TIME, June...