We know that consumers often make bad decisions when an experience is immediately pleasurable and when harm is deferred or the relationship between cause and effect are complex and not immediately visible.
For now, the United States is setting aside potentially the most divisive issue in the relationship, deferring a decision on whether to accuse China of manipulating its currency, the renminbi, until well after Mr. Hu's visit, according to a senior administration official.
What makes the tension between the pair compelling is the flagrant inappropriateness of any kind of sexual relationship, the sense not of deferred romantic resolution but impending doom.
Readers can cook along with the friends as they travel through time facing the challenges of independence, the joys and heartbreaks of first love, and the emotional complexities of family relationships, identity, mortality, and dreams deferred.
In this context, ETR represents the relationship between overall tax expense, including deferred taxes, and pre-tax earnings of the year.
Gray, whose time as chair was about to expire, deferred action on the report, saying that his adversarial relationship with Keating would make any action he took seem vindictive, and that instead the incoming chair should take over the decision.
While business cases make up a fair percentage of the Supreme Court's decisions each year, the court has historically deferred to state governments on issues such as corporate law and the relationship between shareholders and management.
"I think Arthur not only deferred to Lance but he adored him and felt very comfortable with him almost immediately," a Times executive said of their relationship in those days.
Necessary maintenance was deferred.
