He said he had decided against it because of competing commitments.
One group of Koreans was not speaking to another group of Koreans because of competing claims over which group should have been granted the official parade permit.
Local real estate brokers had privately questioned whether the company would be able to fill its space because of competing projects under construction.
Given the changing situation, it says, more emphasis should be placed on building national and local public capacities, improving transparency, information and accountability, and achieving "policy coherence" so that finances are not wasted because of competing policies in different sectors.
Most of the rest is nominally federal land, but in practice is up for grabs: title deeds are forged, people are killed and deforestation accelerates because of competing claims.
"If governments are either less willing, because of competing pressures on budgets, or are unable to provide support then that could have a material impact on bank ratings," says Johannes Wassenberg of Moody's, a rating agency.
A lifelong supporter of the ruling Social Democratic Party, Mrs. Lindgren published a caustic newspaper satire before the 1976 election in which she calculated that, because of competing local and federal taxes, her income was taxed at an annual rate of 102percentt.
Sani Daura, Nigeria's environmental minister and a spokesman for a bloc of developing nations called the Group of 77 and China -- whose exemption from emissions targets had long been seen as the most likely source of an impasse -- said the conference had failed largely because of competing economic interests in wealthy countries.
The range of laws largely reflects Congress's unwillingness to pass comprehensive digital privacy legislation, perhaps because of competing impulses: a fear that greater infringements on privacy could stifle the development of the Internet, for example, whereas broader privacy rights could stifle law enforcement agencies and copyright holders like the recording industry.
Analysts said the latest delay will further undermine confidence in the viability of Nabucco, which is already facing soaring costs well beyond the initial €7.9 billion, or $11 billion, estimate, while potential investors are holding back because of competing pipelines and the lack of signed supply contracts.
With o-bromonitrobenezene the yield was lower because of competing cleavage of the CBr bond.
