The one thing we know — if you look at airports, if you look at highways, if you look at the water system of Flint, Michigan — it is much more costly to defer maintenance than it is to do maintenance promptly.
Duff and Phelps cited problems with deferred tax as crucial to them rejecting a plan for the Rangers squad to defer rather than cut wages for the closing months of the season.
Our results did support the transitional hypothesis, both because SREs were produced at an inopportune time, and because the underlying allocation pattern showed that heavily time-constrained plants were less likely to defer offspring than were less time-constrained plants.
Rather than defer to Poland, Mr. Ostrowski predicted, Germany and France will find a way to bypass it.
He said a $710 million rainy-day fund should be used, rather than defer bills owed to localities.
Lawyers are on strike, meaning that even when judges can show up in court, they can do no more than defer cases.
Mr Schröder is not only less willing to defer to France than his predecessors for generational reasons, but also, as a German from the Protestant north, he feels more comfortable with the British than the French.
"If we have to have one," said Donald Hughes, Ms. Brewer's health care policy adviser, "then it would be better for Arizona to do it ourselves rather than defer to the federal government".
Gluttons for punishment, Mets pitchers almost unanimously agree that they would rather go after Bonds and suffer the consequences than defer the challenge and put him on first base.
By paying attention to preventive care and routine visits, I hope to catch future ailments early rather than defer trips to the doctor, as I had done before for decades.
