The next year Chicago became the murder capital of the U.S. as federal prosecutors dithered.
But while football and most other sports were finally facing the problem decisively, Selig dithered.
And then critics say leaders dithered in making key decisions about deployments and tactics.
They say that successive Polish governments have quarrelled and dithered over every public project.
While big banks dithered, it pioneered intra-day trading and share-trading bulletin-boards for German clients.
For two years the FDA dithered over whether to add a stronger warning to the Vioxx label.
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Despite adequate warnings, the governor of Louisiana and the mayor of New Orleans dithered before ordering an evacuation.
Fujifilm exposed this weakness by bagging the sponsorship of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles while Kodak dithered.
Typically, Congress has dithered over removing these tax breaks, even though lawmakers have had considerable time to do so.
Example: For a decade now America's large telcos have yawned and dithered on supplying high-speed data lines to homes.
While NBC dithered and backtracked on its "Tonight" succession plan involving O'Brien, Comcast is likely to be more decisive.
It was bad luck that the copper price slumped as Zambia's government dithered over the sale of its mines.
What isn't making the headlines is that Obama flailed and dithered for nearly three days before first approving force.
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In the early 1990s, while European governments dithered, Lord Ashdown was calling for a stronger military intervention in Bosnia.
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Even as fuel got dearer--Nepal imports all its requirements from India--the outgoing Nepali Congress-led government dithered to the last in raising prices.
Britain got going late because the government dithered for nearly a year.
The Hammers defence dithered as they attempted to clear Geremi's long throw.
BASF, dithered for years about making an international purchase in life sciences.
Jardim Brandao dithered on the ball in his own box and Marco Borriello dispossessed him before trying to go round goalkeeper Gianluca Curci.
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley said the government had "dithered and delayed" on hospital infections and only hit the target by "moving the goalposts".
While other sports embraced goal-line technology, football dithered over its introduction.
Local government aviation group SASIG warned that if he "dithered" over the White Paper it would lead to uncertainty for thousands of residents living near airports.
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Over the last ten years, while its rivals have dithered, Microsoft has been feeding its living-room secret weapon a nonstop diet of software updates and hardware upgrades.
The government of Indira Gandhi dithered for months before the main Sikh political party, the moderate Akali Dal, threatened to disrupt grain supplies from the wheat-rich state.
They noted, in particular, that he dithered and wobbled when hectored by telephone from Pristina, Kosovo's capital, by Adem Demaci , an iconic figure in Kosovo politics.
Mr Obama and his advisers, at odds over strategy, dithered over allocating troops and, far worse, set a date for them to start their withdrawal (see Lexington).
He claimed the Nationalists had "promised the earth" to voters in the run up to the last Scottish elections but said they had "dithered, postured, centralised and deeply disappointed".
Ms Megawati had for weeks dithered over demands from America, and some of Indonesia's neighbours, to act against international militants who appeared to be using Indonesia as a new base.
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