Word: delayer
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...ride that mortgage interest rates have taken recently. Since setting out in early June to refinance the loan on her co-op apartment, Levine has watched interest on a 15-year fixed-rate mortgage shoot up from 5% to 6%. Although she initially locked in the lower rate, a delay in the processing of her application could have meant missing the 60-day processing deadline--and getting stuck with the higher prevailing rate and a bigger monthly mortgage payment. "It was scary," says Levine...
...list of candidates on the second ballot who were offering themselves up to replace Davis. And so Davis was left facing members of his establishment and a simple yea or nay verdict on his future: the state supreme court last Thursday rejected the Governor's lawsuit to delay the election and allow his name to appear among the replacement candidates should he lose the recall...
...members recruited so far who will not be receiving scholarship money this year. More broadly, AmeriCorps itself faces a reduction from approximately 55,000 to 35,000 members. Just before the summer recess, the Senate passed a $100 million appropriation to restore these cuts, but House majority leader Tom DeLay-who has made no secret of his desire to kill AmeriCorps-blocked the money. The President says he wants these funds restored, but he doesn't seem to have much control over the powerful DeLay. Even if Bush means what he says, Teach for America has been axed...
...said then that he feared some witnesses might fail to show up the next morning as part of an intentional prosecutorial plan to delay his day in court “for weeks or months,” virtually ad infinitum...
...brief filed by the U.S. Attorney’s office last month, the first continuance was granted on the initial scheduled trial date of September 2002 “at the last moment because of the illness of defense counsel’s wife.” The next delay was caused by the appointment of Byrne’s lawyer, Kenneth Fishman, to a judgeship in December 2002. Byrne remained without counsel—producing yet another postponement while he tried to find a lawyer—until this spring, when he retained Frank A. Libby...