Word: delayer
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...next few weeks Bremer hopes to quiet grumbling over the U.S.'s delay in putting an Iraqi face on the occupation. He plans to announce the appointment of a 35-member Iraqi advisory council that he says will have control over some former government ministries--the first small step toward handing authority over to a new Iraqi government, which would enable the U.S. to withdraw its troops from the country. Bremer says he hopes Iraqis will vote for a new national government sometime next year. "This place can blossom, as it did in the 1950s," he says...
...whole thing a hoax, echoing the spoofs Franklin confected for Poor Richard's Almanack. But author Tom Tucker's evidence is slim. He makes much of the improbability of flying a kite weighted down by a heavy key, ignoring Franklin's long history of kite flying, and of his delay in publicizing the experiment, though only three months elapsed. More to the point, scientific fraud seems wildly out of character for Franklin. As Harvard chemist and Franklin buff Dudley Herschbach, a Nobel laureate, notes, "It would have been utterly inconsistent with all of his other work in [science...
...many as 22,000 people annually will notch up a visit, all on hardy hulks like the Akademik Ioffe. Air travel is costly and almost impossible, due to Antarctica's furious climate, which plays more havoc with schedules than any who advisory could ever do. (The weather can delay flights for two weeks or longer, with no flights at all during the evil winter...
...Bienge, a 39-year-old clerk in Berlin's criminal court, was traveling back to the German capital from Dresden one evening recently when her train came to a standstill for almost two hours. "I was fuming," she says. It took the conductors 45 minutes to apologize for the delay. But they never explained what caused...
...continue to air differences in public. For DeLay, a former exterminator from Houston, Bush is a Republican born of privilege and more representative of his party's country-club wing, despite his Midland, Texas, roots and frequent trips to his Crawford ranch. Explaining himself, DeLay simply says, "I'm just a bug man." --By John F. Dickerson and Michael Weisskopf