Word: delayer
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What do guys want that they can't get from the networks? Sex, sure, but, more than that, danger and authenticity--the raw, unbleeped real deal, unpredictable and without a five-second delay. Now they get that from cable (up 1.5% during prime time) and video games (up 17.6%), which have no federal chaperones. Lose the guys, and you lose millions in ad revenue. Alienate the FCC, especially in an election year, and you risk millions in fines. The networks are caught between an irresistible force and an implacable object...
Could the Democrats hold a convention in July and not nominate a presidential candidate? That's the odd possibility raised by a suggestion floated late last week to delay John Kerry's official acceptance of the nomination until five weeks after the convention. The idea--which a Democratic source says was dreamed up by the Howard Dean campaign back when Dean thought he would be the nominee--is meant to avoid putting Kerry at a spending disadvantage to President Bush. Under campaign-finance rules, each candidate, upon receiving the nomination, gets a $75 million check from the government that...
...G.O.P. troops that day than Bush. In a press conference after the President's visit, she accused him of "incompetence" and declared that "the emperor has no clothes." Reaction was predictably swift and harsh. "Nancy Pelosi should apologize for her irresponsible, dangerous rhetoric," said House majority leader Tom DeLay. When times get tough for the G.O.P., the Democrats can always help...
...delay, which according to former union leader Karen O’Brien stands to save the University several million dollars, was largely prompted by the development in Allston and improvements in the science department. Those costs have squeezed the University’s budget this year despite its famously large endowment, and expenses have been cut at almost every level of the University...
...into a political party and some of its fighters would be incorporated into the Iraqi security forces. Although the U.S. had previously demanded that Sadr be taken into custody to stand trial over his alleged involvement in the killing of a rival cleric last year, the reported deal would delay any arrest and prosecution until after June 30, when it would be up to a new Iraqi authority to pursue...