Word: delayer
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What is harder to fathom is why this is happening again. After all, there have been supply problems with flu vaccines for each of the past four years. Several government and academic reports have addressed the issue since 2000, when manufacturing glitches resulted in an almost two-month-long delay in shipments of vaccine. And although the problems have come to a head in the past few years, their roots go back at least two decades. "A lot of people have been asleep at the wheel," says Dr. Frank Sloan, director of the Center for Health Policy, Law and Management...
Given the bareboned feel of Disc One, Disc Two is startlingly, well, boned; if One is proto-Pixies, Two is plush-parallel-universe Pixies. Gone is the ruggedness of even the originals’ instrumentation, replaced instead by electronic tones and effects slipped over unexpected delay-echoed muted horns and muffled acousto-electric guitars. “The Holiday Song” and “Is She Weird?” are particularly affected by these new arrangements, though in the case of the latter, and elsewhere, only moderately effective. Mr. Black was assisted in the Disc Two project...
...Years ago, if a premedical student wanted to wait a year before applying to medical school, there was concern on the part of the medical schools that this delay reflected a lack of motivation on the student’s part,” Lee Ann Michelson ’77, the Office of Career Services (OCS) Director of Premedical and Health Care Advising, writes in an e-mail. “That attitude has changed dramatically and med schools now often prefer the older applicant...
Environmentalists worry that a permit under development by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may delay the agency’s goal for a swimmable and fishable Charles River...
...DeLay's current problems may not be over. A Texas grand jury has indicted three of his close aides on charges of funneling illegal corporate money to Texas state elections. The House ethics panel was asked to look at DeLay's involvement in the scheme but decided to wait for the Texas prosecutor to finish his probe. And Senate and federal grand jury investigations of lobbyist and DeLay fund raiser Jack Abramoff--who allegedly has defrauded Indian tribes of tens of millions of dollars in inflated fees--are exploring his boasts of access to DeLay. People close to DeLay have...