As it dawns on workers that they don't have enough to live on, some are simply deciding to delay retirement.
The Reader's Digest Association will post a loss for the first quarter of its fiscal year after deciding to delay the recognition of some sales and profit from a publishing unit it acquired in May.
A boost to income tax receipts from highly paid employees is still expected to bolster the government's finances after many avoided the 50p tax rate by deciding to delay gains to the current year when the new 45p rate applies.
On one level, the E.P.A. seemed to be flexing its muscle after drawing criticism from environmental groups for recently deciding to delay issuing standards on conventional pollutants from industrial boilers.
Mexican and American researchers say that the current decline, which has also been manifested in a decrease in arrests along the border, is largely a result of Mexicans' deciding to delay illegal crossings because of the lack of jobs in the ailing American economy.
Almost at the same time that NASA managers were deciding to delay another attempt until Nov. 30, the opening of the next available launching window, engineers spotted a 7-inch-long crack in protective foam insulation on the side of the giant tank.
