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Heavy snow delayed the train for several hours.

The traffic accident delayed the cars last night.

We delayed the meeting for a week.

In the first place, as I have said, it is essential that the alkali in this glass (in the manufacture of hollow ware, at least) should be potash, and it was, perhaps, the fact that the lead was at first used along with soda that so long delayed the production of a ‘metal’ suitable for the manufacture of blown-glass.

The death of Tyler, and the consequent suppression of the insurrectionary movement [62]which he led, caused the concessions wrung from the King to be revoked, and so delayed the cause of agrarian freedom; but the ultimate triumph of free tenure and labour was already assured from the moment that unanimity was achieved.

Intel delayed the release of its highest-powered Pentium processor, Coppermine, and a new chipset for memory chips because it couldn't hit the production schedules its customers needed.

txt Brainless in Seattle Everybody leads with yesterday's Seattle street clashes between protesters and police that delayed the opening of the WTO summit and resulted in an all-night curfew and the calling out of some unarmed National Guard units to keep the peace for President Clinton's arrival early Wednesday morning.

txt Luce Change Yes, the GOP presidential candidates debated again last night, and yes, a Florida judge at least momentarily delayed the return of Elián González to Cuba, and yes, the Supreme Court says Microsoft has to let its temp workers in on its good-deal stock purchase plan, but everybody leads with yesterday's surprise announcement of AOL's purchase of Time Warner, the first acquisition of an old media company (co-founded 75 years ago by Henry Luce) by a new media one (only 15 years old), the largest media merger of all time, and indeed, the just-plain largest merger of all time.

It seems that the Miami family court judge who just delayed the INS plan to return the boy to his father in Cuba employed--during her 1998 election campaign--the spokesman for the boy's Miami relatives as well as the spokesman's wife.

The official delayed the announcement until the UPS strike was settled, so as not to influence its outcome.

The News reported that Streisand--a well-known, um, perfectionist--almost delayed the much-rescheduled wedding because the caterer delivered San Pellegrino water instead of the requested Perrier.

Economic factoids: the LAT and USAT fronts report that the booming economy has delayed the insolvency of Social Security for three additional years--until 2032.

These charts, which failed to convince NASA officials not to launch the shuttle, were confusing--dense with invitations to second-guess, even though crucial information that would have delayed the launch was undeniably "there" (somewhere).

The president has delayed the decision on whether to actually deploy a missile defense until June 2000.

In Iceland, the daily Morgunbladid reported that a plan to sail an Icelandic Viking ship to North America as part of next year's millennium celebrations is in jeopardy because lack of funding has delayed the preparations.

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