Word: stallings
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...cagers have even prospered when their opponents have tried to slow the ball down; witness Harvard's 75 against Holy Cross on Monday. The Crimson will doubtless be in for more of the same stall-ball this weekend when the notoriously low-scoring Princeton Tigers come to Briggs Athletic Center...
...city manager has managed to stall and stall and stall on the appointments and activities of the (board)," said State Rep. and City Councilor Saundra Graham, who sponsored the resolution creating the board...
Harvard officials, however, have called the union's bargaining positions "outrageous" and have refused to consider the four-and-two proposal. Harvard's stall tactics should come as no surprise; the University has a long history of failing to negotiate promptly or in good faith with its employees. In addition to stonewalling, Harvard negotiator Edward Powers has threatened to withdraw retroactive wage increases that are often granted employees working under an interim contract after a new contract is approved. The University seems determined to force the union to give into its demands...
...package. The measure provides $70 million in military help and $30 million in "humanitarian" aid for the contras, plus $300 million in assistance to Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala. It now faces a House-Senate conference committee, where Speaker Tip O'Neill may again attempt to stall it. But even Democratic opponents expect it to pass before November's midterm elections...
...been a tough two weeks for William Rehnquist. Questions about his views on race and his role in the preWatergate Justice Department had briefly threatened to stall his nomination as Chief Justice of the U.S. The White House made matters worse by invoking Executive privilege to withhold his memorandums advising on ways to handle the civil disturbances and other legal matters of the early 1970s...