Word: delayer
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Other students waiting in the snow said the delays also tested their patience, including Melissa M. Garcia ’09, who ducked into Au Bon Pain for shelter after the 4:45 shuttle’s initial 20-minute delay. An hour later, mocha latte in hand, the shuttle Garcia was expecting had yet to arrive...
NASA's shuttle Atlantis was scheduled for a mission to the International Space Station on Dec. 9, but a faulty fuel gauge caused the launch to be postponed until January at the earliest. If the gauge had been fixed quickly, could the delay have been avoided? No. Blame orbital mechanics...
News on the environmental front for the last few years has been consistently dismal, but recent innovations may delay the environmental catastrophe forecast by climate researchers.Though most Americans are too distracted to notice the urgency of global climate change, the few people who have managed to stay focused are coming up with good ideas. From titans of modern business such as Google, to innovative energy producers, to techie projects like MIT’s Vehicle Design Summit, visionaries are beginning to lay the groundwork for huge leaps forward in energy generation and energy efficiency. These technologies have the potential...
...Paulson himself acknowledged about the plan, it's "not a silver bullet." And there are lingering concerns that, while the freeze may calm roiled mortgage markets for a time, it may merely delay the inevitable bottoming out of real estate prices. "The sooner we face reality and be done with it the better off we are," said Alan Ziobrowski, a professor of real estate finance at Georgia State University, in a telephone interview. "To drag this out for four, five, six years is just not a help...
...Oddly, Bush didn't seem to ask for a delay in the release of the report. He could easily have requested a few weeks for his Administration to chew over the import of the NIE, discuss it with our allies, organize a new diplomatic initiative to negotiate with the Iranians. As it was, Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns briefed the U.N. Security Council members who had been considering a new round of sanctions against Iran about the same time that word of the NIE broke in the press. When it did, the Chinese, who had seemed surprisingly ready...