Ms. Taylor also faulted the president's leadership on health care legislation, saying he had deferred too much to Congress.
Williams had 15 points on 16 shots and said the Cavaliers had deferred too much to the Magic.
Allies and adversaries have accused President Obama of reacting too slowly, deferring too much to BP, displaying too little emotion and demonstrating incompetent management.
Baltimore was the only other team known to have made an offer to Guerrero, but the Orioles' offer deferred too much money.
And yet, watching Geithner from a distance as he continued to lead the New York Fed and then went on to join the Obama Administration, I maintained my belief that he was deferring too much to Wall Street.
He defers too much to current orthodoxies – the discussion of patriarchy resists the logic of its own arguments for fear of affronting feminists – and reflects current academic fashion by, for example, hugely overstating the role of science in European colonialism.
But the administration is also learning that deferring too much to Congress can produce as many problems as deferring too little.The problem with Congress is that it is a many-headed monster, ill-suited to making hard choices or producing neat solutions.
But when the defensive intensity increases in the playoffs, the challenge for the Knicks will be to avoid deferring too much to Anthony, in the interest of finding and sustaining a delicate chemistry that would allow Anthony's future Hall of Fame candidacy to evoke 1973-like memofiesharingaring, sacrifice and ultimate celebration.
Mr. Rubin said the ensuing accord and the gratitude of Kosovo Albanians was among his most "emotionally satisfying experiences," though some have criticized the agreement as deferring too much to a ruthless, irregular army and giving it too much of a role in settling the conflict.
Much business travel will be deferred, too.
