Word: delayer
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...visionless governance are not unique to Sacramento, nor are the efforts of right-wing populist extremists to use constitutional gimmickry to subvert democracy. The impeachment of Bill Clinton was part of the latter trend, as is the current effort in the Texas state legislature-orchestrated by Congressman Tom DeLay-to redraw district lines. As a nation, we seem to be losing the habits of civility and citizenship. Public life is becoming a pricey boutique, catering only to special interests and political eccentrics. The California recall is goofy, irresponsible-and not a bad way to remind politicians that their work involves...
...about $11 billion, the battered corporation?s relationship with the federal government-which yields about $1 billion in annual revenue-remained unchanged. The Bush administration is only now getting around to suspending the company from government contracts. In D.C., Republicans and Democrats alike have been puzzled. Why the delay...
...even take the steps to formally consider barring MCI from government contracts until June - a year after the first revelations that the company had misrepresented its true financial condition by $11 billion through accounting fraud - the largest fraud in corporate history. The delay prompted questions on Capitol Hill, where lobbyists from the White House as well as former NY Mayor Rudy Giuliani's firm were dispatched to head off a measure earlier this month that would have barred the company from future contracts. The measure was watered down and then attached to an appropriations bill which had not yet passed...
...anything, the delay of promised peacekeeping forces appears to have encouraged more fighting. Despite cease-fire agreements, rebel groups have launched repeated offensives to capture the capital and the second city, Buchanan, over the past three weeks, leaving hundreds of civilians dead in the ensuing battles. The goal is to create facts on the ground before the peacekeepers arrive - the two rebel groups already control 80 percent of Liberia, and if they can defeat Taylor's forces in the capital before ECOWAS arrives, the peacekeepers' role will simply involve overseeing and guaranteeing the transition to a new government. Some African...
...further delay has become untenable, in the face of the mounting civilian death toll and the burgeoning humanitarian crisis. The undisciplined young fighters wildly trading fire on the capital's streets may have rendered the peacekeeping mission far more difficult. It's one thing putting troops in between two armies that have agreed on a cease-fire; quite another when their job is to fight their way in and impose a truce on both - and to do so as the city's food and drinking water supplies dwindle and cholera becomes a real threat. The most immediate cause cited...