Companies began delaying or canceling expansion plans, and warning that they would reduce their work forces.
EBay also began delaying some listings from being published to the site to give its employees time to review the items.
When the traffic jam began, delaying school buses, commuters, and emergency vehicles responding to a cardiac arrest, he repeatedly contacted the Port Authority, and got no response.
Hachette books weren't banned outright from Amazon's site, but Amazon began delaying their delivery, raising their prices, and/or steering customers to other publishers.
At one point, Amazon, apparently hoping to put pressure on the publisher, began delaying shipments of hard copies of Hachette-published books ordered through its site, to the ire of those books' authors.
In the 1990s, partly driven by the preferences of Robert Parker, an influential American critic, many producers began delaying their harvests in order to make fuller, fruitier reds that could be drunk without lengthy cellaring.
But soon officials at DEA headquarters began delaying and blocking enforcement actions, and the number of cases plummeted, according to on-the-record interviews with five former agency supervisors and internal records obtained by The Washington Post.
Congress then began delaying funds for the oil shipments and light water reactors and failed to reduce economic sanctions as promised.
Millions of acres in upstate New York are under lease, awaiting permits for the drilling, which has yet to begin, delayed by a state environmental review.
Once he understood how this history shaped his impulsiveness, he was able to begin delaying his reactions.
