Word: stall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council members to form a "human chain" around University Hall during a full meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Among the chants at that May rally--held just a month after the 20th anniversary of the 1969 student takeover of University Hall--was "FAS, don't stall, next time we'll be in U. Hall...
...Crimson defense, led by Yadao, Joslin and Co-Captain Erin O'Brien, continued to stall the aggressive Brown offense, breaking up their last two penalty corners and forcing them into a ten-minute do-or-die overtime period...
...first, I was skeptical. It was just another stall tactic for him not to give me a car. You see, every year my dad promises to give me a car. He still hasn't. So he's probably telling me to go to Europe so the car issue doesn't come up during Commencement...
Legislators and gay rights lobbyists decided to accept the altered version instead of trying to remove the amendments in a conference committee, where opponents would have a chance to stall the bill's passage...
...high cost of AZT -- $7,000 to $8,000 a year -- will make it difficult for any but the wealthy or the well insured to receive the drug. Some state Medicaid programs pay for AIDS treatment only when the disease is far advanced. People who take AZT to stall the onset of AIDS may not be covered. Burroughs Wellcome Co., which manufactures AZT, is now seeking FDA clearance to use the medication in pre-AIDS patients. If the Federal Government permits the number of consumers to go up, presumably the price will come down...