a month's postponement

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And so I agreed to a year's postponement.

Mr. Koons was finally due to close last month, but asked for a two-month postponement, several people briefed on the transaction say.

At the request of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, the Board of Education and Chancellor Harold O. Levy agreed yesterday to a two-month postponement of the board's decision on whether to extend Mr. Levy's contract for another year.

The article "Studying Makeup of Miniplanets Beyond Pluto" (Nov. 7) did not mention NASA's "postponement" in September of the Pluto-Kuiper Express mission to the Kuiper Belt.

Mickelson won at Pebble Beach in 1998, when bad weather forced a six-month postponement of the final round until August.

In the wake of the Exxon Mobil opinion, another oil company, Unocal, has won a five-month postponement of its trial involving alleged misconduct in Myanmar.

The men would initially get a six-month postponement of service that they could then renew again and again, until they were past the enlistment age of twenty-nine.

They warned President Obama not to offer a two-month postponement of the spending cuts as part of the deal to avert the fiscal cliff.

The assistant district attorney for the case, the crowd was informed, was seriously ill with pneumonia and had been granted a one-month postponement.

Brenden also had requested a postponement to next month's meeting.

No matter what happens the rest of the month, the Dodgers can forever point to Saturday's postponement as yet another October oddity.