It added that in the current financial year, starting in April, NR delays had added more than 1,000 hours (65,000 minutes) to Virgin Trains' customer journeys.
It has set back efforts to repair the program's finances, and such delays have added enormously to the eventual cost of fixing the program.
The delays have added to an ever-increasing backlog of refugees, many of whom have waited years to be granted asylum in the U.S. "If they're not scheduling interviews in the field, then nobody's getting approved," Plummer said.
But for supporters of the pipeline -- including TransCanada, which says delays have added $1 billion to the cost of the $7 billion project -- denying a pipeline permit would run counter to Obama's stated commitment to job creation and an "all of the above" energy policy that includes continued development of oil, gas and even coal resources.
Since June, when United Airlines began experiencing chronic delays, it alone has added a total of 990,000 minutes to its schedule of 2,300 daily flights.
A leaking choke line has added delay to tests designed to make sure the well can tolerate the pressures engendered by a firm seal on the top.
The competition has been delayed, and the group has added a new category: earthquake-resistant housing.
Some Kenyans believe a mostly Kikuyu establishment is trying to protect its own.An attempt to delay the elections until next year has added to the sense of uncertainty in the Kenyan capital and is symptomatic of a country often unprepared to take hard decisions.
This latest strategy of blockage comes on top of unprecedented stalling on judicial nominations, notwithstanding the administration's practice of checking with Republicans to see which proposed judges might win their approval -- a courtesy that has added to the delay, and one that Republicans have taken as another sign of weakness.
A shortage of respiratory consultants has added to the delays.
