Word: delayer
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...those convulsions of public feeling that impel strangers to converge on a single spot. They were not there to protest. Dancing, singing and launching fireworks, some 300 men and women came to celebrate a breakthrough political victory. After a nine-hour parliamentary debate, and six long years of delay, a bill granting women the right to vote and to run for public office finally passed. "Our hearts are overflowing with joy and happiness," exulted Fayza al-Awadhi, a member of the Kuwaiti Women's Cultural & Social Society. Giving women the vote was first debated in 1999, but was blocked...
...views on the ethics scandals roiling Washington [May 9], proved that more stringent campaign-finance reform can no longer be postponed. It is appalling that Abramoff hides behind the defense that he is not the worst-behaved lobbyist in Washington. Abramoff and his friend House majority leader Tom DeLay need to be reminded that representing the people is a privilege, one not to be exploited for personal gain. I feel no sympathy for Abramoff, who now must spend a lot of money on lawyers instead of making money from his clients...
Officially, the House Republican leadership has pledged not to pressure its members on the bill, having deemed it a matter of conscience. But majority leader Tom DeLay had been quietly looking for ways to stall it or complicate its progress through the legislative machinery. House sources say he stepped back from that effort after moderate Republicans reminded Speaker Hastert that he had promised them a clean shot at passage. Meanwhile, an alternative strategy is being discussed that would give House members the opportunity to also vote on an additional piece of stem-cell legislation, possibly a bill by Congressman Chris...
...closing list. The Base Realignment and Closure Commission has until Sept. 8 to approve or amend Rumsfeld's list, and Bush and Congress must accept or reject it by the end of the year. Until then, Thune has vowed to lead the congressional fight to delay the closings and may vote against key White House legislation--bringing new meaning to the election-year tactic of playing to your base. --By Douglas Waller
...Truck bombs, not hijacked planes, were the subject of an April 8th NYPD vulnerability report that caused developers and politicians, already under fire for rising costs and construction delays, to announce that they would have to reinforce the slender structure or move it further from the street. Experts say the design changes could delay the completion date of the building from 2008 to as late as 2010. Aesthetes worry that the best countermeasure for truck bombs-concrete, and lots of it-will ruin the airy grace of the original tower design and perhaps preclude some of its more symbolic features...