Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Former Secretary of State and Maine Senator Edmund Muskie said "only time will tell" if the Democrats have really united behind Dukakis. "When you use glue, you have to wait a few minutes before it hardens--we're waiting to see if it hardens," Muskie said...
...reasonably complete answer will have to wait several weeks until experts finish analyzing tapes from the Vincennes and other U.S. Navy vessels in the gulf. And some questions about the affair may never be resolved. Why, for example, did the Airbus pilot not answer the warnings issued in the last minutes before the shootdown? But enough has become known in the week since the tragedy to suggest a terrible conclusion, one with dismaying implications for a nuclear-armed world: the U.S., and by extension other countries using high-tech weapons, may have become prisoners of a technology so speedy...
Since then, the U.S. has promulgated new, hair-trigger "rules of engagement" for the gulf. They specify that commanders need not wait until their forces are fired upon before unloosing their own weapons. All they need is some convincing indication that a ship or plane is approaching with hostile intent. Doubtless influencing Rogers' decision was the fact that his ship had just been engaged in hostilities. Following reports of Iranian speedboat attacks on two neutral ships, the Vincennes sent a helicopter to investigate. The Iranians fired on the helicopter, triggering a firefight that Flight 655 had the foul luck...
...employee said he is considering suing Harvard, but he will wait to make a decision until the University has completed an internal review of the case...
...problem, says the OTA study, is that most U.S. managers, under pressure to show short-term profits, adopt a wait-and-see attitude toward innovation. Meanwhile, their foreign competitors, backed by government support, seek out | commercial applications more aggressively. Some proposed solutions: more joint ventures among industrial companies and increased Government funding of commercial development...