Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passed by the House and the Senate before Congress goes on vacation Aug. 13. Administration economists contend that if the bill is delayed until fall, the battle against inflation may be lost altogether. While the tax will continue to be withheld from paychecks until a decision is made, the wait for final approval, say Treasury experts, undercuts their efforts to slow inflation and brake the economy. On the other hand, the liberals argue, the American public is overwhelmingly in favor of a more equitable tax structure, and they may never again have so great an opportunity to coerce needed reforms...
Though Heikal's influence derives directly from his intimacy with Nasser, it is amplified by his weekly article in the Friday (Sabbath) edition of Al Ahram. The night it goes to press, more than a dozen embassy chauffeurs wait until the first copies are printed, and then speed back to their offices for immediate translation. Al Ahram's Friday circulation jumps by a third and wire services rush out stories on what Heikal has written, knowing it to be an accurate reflection of Nasser's thinking...
Stuart Chase, Public Relations Director of Morgan Memorial, did not comment on the charges made by the drivers. He said, "It is necessary to view all the facts. I will wait to comment until the union officially presents the demands...
...safety of their triple-sealed vacuum storage boxes, the lunar samples will be rushed to the LRL even before the Apollo 11 crew members arrive to wait out their 21-day quarantine period. There are "time-critical" tests that must be performed swiftly to detect any gas or radioactivity that the samples may give off; the emissions may decrease or stop soon after the sample is removed from the lunar surface. The samples will be sealed off from the rest of the world by a double biological barrier: 1) a vacuum system and a series of vacuum chambers in which...
...stealing rare coins. When police arrested Chimel at his home in Santa Ana, Calif., they examined the premises without a search warrant and found some of the stolen coins. Such searches are common. Many police departments, seeking to avoid the necessity of justifying a search warrant before a judge, wait to arrest a suspect at his home, then claim that the search is "incident to a valid arrest" and therefore legal. A 6-to-2 majority of the Justices disagreed. Police, they said, may search an arrested man's person and, to prevent him from destroying evidence, "the area...