Word: delayer
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...results also suggest that elevated urate levels may delay the progression of Parkinson’s disease, according to Weisskopf. Urate also has the potential to become “the first established biomarker of the disease” to gauge Parkinson’s in the way that High-density lipoprotein cholesterol—better known as the “good” cholesterol—is used as a measure of cardiac health, Weisskopf said...
...stiff opposition from Serbia and, more important, Russia. A Bush-Putin summit earlier this month failed to make progress on the issue. U.S. officials now say the U.N. resolution once promised for early 2007 may not come until 2008. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon warned that further delay could "unravel" Kosovo's peace process, but there is no clear path to agreement. The current U.N. proposal, backed by the U.S. and the E.U., would recognize Kosovo as a state but put it under E.U. supervision to safeguard Serbs and other minorities. But Russian officials have said that the move...
...moment, though, Faust's cabinet includes several temporary members, including interim deans at Harvard Medical School and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and two deans—at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Design—who agreed to delay their resignation until permanent replacements are found...
...even exist," says Kate Hanni, a passenger onboard flight 1348, which she says had overflowing toilets and little food or water. She went on to found the Coalition for an Airline Passenger's Bill of Rights, a grassroots organization that is lobbying Congress to federally mandate that all tarmac delays be capped at four hours. When Mark Mogel, a member of Hanni's coalition, logged onto the BTS website to find data on Hanni's flight delay, he turned up empty-handed...
...Mogel wasn't the only person to discover delay discrepancies. Rep. Jean Schmidt, a Republican from Ohio, did some digging of her own after being delayed on an airport tarmac for two hours in January. Schmidt, who sits on the House Infrastructure and Transportation Committee, was also shocked to find the loophole. In June, she introduced a bill that would require the BTS to record tarmac delays of all flights, regardless of returns to the gate, diversions or cancellations. "I think we need to know what the true picture is of these delays, because it could be underreported...