Word: delayer
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DALE EARNHARDT JR., NASCAR driver, in a live interview on NBC after winning his fifth race at the Talladega (Ala.) Speedway. He was fined $10,000 by NASCAR, and NBC later announced a 5-sec. delay on sports coverage...
After House majority leader Tom DeLay redrew his old rival Martin Frost's district out of existence a year ago, Frost, a veteran Congressman, decided to stand in another one, the 32nd. The incumbent there, freshman Pete Sessions, suddenly faces a pit bull of a campaigner in a battle that will probably be the most expensive House race in the country, with each side expected to spend $4 million. With the candidates trading charges of poster stealing and arguing over who is tougher on child kidnappers, neither one may come out of this ugly fight looking like a winner...
...HOUSE HAD A THREE-strikes rule, majority leader Tom DeLay would be packing his office. The Committee on Standards of Official Conduct last week rebuked DeLay for two ethics violations and told him to watch his step in the future. He was reprimanded for sending federal officials to look for a plane he believed was carrying Texas Democratic state lawmakers dodging a vote on a DeLay-backed redistricting plan. A second rebuke involved a $25,000 contribution to one of his political committees by Westar, a Kansas energy company that was seeking a special provision in a pending energy bill...
...Could DeLay's troubles jeopardize his powerful position in the House and undercut his ambition to be Speaker? A number of Republicans "fear but don't revere" DeLay, says a senior G.O.P. operative, and the combined concerns could surface in mid-November, when House members meet to elect their leaders...
...most difficult issues to an indefinite future." There is no more difficult issue than Kosovo's independence - and no middle ground between the two communities' views. Kosovar Albanian leaders want results now. "Independence," the Kosovar Albanian Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi told Time, "is necessary for our development. Any [further] delay will bring more trouble." Kosovar Serbs say they don't trust Albanian leaders to protect their rights. "We have heard all the promises before," says Ilija Trajkovic. "They are old lies." U.N. officials insist that the best way Serbs can be heard is by electing their leaders...