Word: delayer
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...will let the ban on those very weapons expire one month from today. Because, though this president has said that he would sign a renewal should the bill reach his desk, he has enlisted his congressional posse—House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn.—to make sure the bill never does. In turn, these men, responsible for bringing the bill to a vote, say they will do so only if the President asks them to. And with the NRA?...
...government increasingly bereft of support and legitimacy among its own citizenry. But Allawi may also believe he has no option but to risk the consequences of an offensive to stamp out the Sadrist challenge if he is to establish the authority of the central government, and that delay would only make the task more difficult...
...having any marketable products, the firm had hoped to raise more than $100 million. And ahead of its own IPO, Google admitted it may have breached U.S. securities laws after failing to register shares and stock options granted to staff between 2001 and 2004. Meanwhile, difficulties registering investors may delay the offering...
...Given the acrimony, the U.N.'s decision to delay the conference may turn out to be farsighted. And while Iraqis have a long way to go before they see the actual fruits of democracy, there is in all the jostling, jockeying and dissent the stirrings of political change. Though some Iraqi officials criticized the delay?"It is time for the U.N. to get off its goddam high horse," groused one?others saw the chaos and confusion as a positive sign. "I don't consider the delay a failure, but a success," says Sayyid Ayaad Jumaluddin...
...Scissor Sisters are an American band, but their self-titled debut album came out in Europe almost six months before its arrival in the U.S. Why the delay? You get the feeling that the Scissor Sisters' record company, Universal, was a little nervous about how audiences Stateside might react to these five flamboyant New Yorkers. Never mind that the band's name was inspired by a lesbian sexual position or that lead singer Jake Shears used to perform in drag shows going by a name in excruciatingly bad taste. The Scissor Sisters are the first band in the history...