Word: delayer
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...Irate lawmakers this week threatened to delay the contract because they believe the Air Force unfairly tilted the award to the European firm - a charge the Air Force rejects. Boeing has said it may launch a formal protest after it gets an Air Force briefing explaining the decision on Friday. The initial contract is for 179 planes over 15 years to refuel the Pentagon's fighters and bombers in mid-air. Ultimately, it could balloon to 500 planes worth about $100 billion...
...missile threat to its southern civilian population centers, the best chance for averting a bloody showdown in Gaza may be a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, mediated either by Egypt, or by Abbas himself, who proposed Monday to take on that role. But even truce efforts may only delay the inevitable clash...
...Colgate net was dislodged after an extended scuffle for several loose rebounds in front of goaltender Mark Dekanich. With Harvard perilously close to punching it in, some of the players seemed to feel that a Raiders player had intentionally shifted the net, which would have been cause for a delay of game penalty.“I think coaches in general kind of see things through rose-colored glasses for themselves sometimes,” Donato said. “But I think it was pretty apparent that the guy pushed the net off.”Another disputed call...
...will only further weaken its hold on the south, especially if a strengthened central government can swoop in and remove inimical SIIC governors. The polls, which will elect legislators as well as governors, cannot be held until the law is passed. Abdul-Medhi's party would benefit from a delay, which would allow local SIIC officials to improve roads, schools and security in their areas...
...however many states become involved in trying to defang Pyongyang and ease the North's eventual integration into the international system, it remains the case that for someone who has long been assumed to hold a weak hand, Kim has played his cards well. Using delay and deceit, always threatening, expressly or by implication, to deploy or sell his nukes, he has wheedled cash, fuel and food aid from the outside and used them to prop up his rule. Nothing, as I say, lasts forever. But the unification that Lee maintains is the "long-cherished desire of the 70 million...