He uses a lot of jargon, like "tool-agnostic framework" and "task-tracking," and breaks every decision about what to do when faced with an e-mail into five possibilities: delete, delegate, respond, defer, do.
"When it comes to all the smaller ones, don't defer, don't say whatever.
"We kept deferring doing things to this floor, because we said by 2004 this hall would be torn down," Mehta said with a rueful shrug.
In contrast, 401(k) contributions, on which income tax is deferred, do not get the break on FICA taxes.
Because the dream deferred doesn't explode for children living in poverty today -- it evaporates.
And yet, Baltimore shows us that a dream deferred does not have to fester, dry up, sag or explode.
But the Co-op did defer and did sit back, and Myners worries that the response to his report will be the same.
A Red Cross official, Kandi Finch, said she was stunned that more people did not defer, adding, "I don't know how people can train for this kind of heat".
If the annual increase was more than 8 percent and if the deferment option continued beyond age 70, maybe more people who could afford to defer would do so, helping to slow the fund's outflows.
These feeble savings options defer, but do not exempt, tax on investment earnings, and of course they give you no deduction on the way in.
Deferring from doing anyone of them, means you did not complete all you needed to do that day and as a result you stay behind time.
