"After further consideration," Mr. Trocquet wrote, "an extension is approved to delay the B.O.P. test until the lower cement plug is set".
In January a missile fired across the Pacific failed to hit a mock warhead that had been launched from an Air Force base in California, causing the Pentagon to delay the third test until late June.
After the failure of its last test in July, the organization has delayed the next test until sometime between March and June, making it unlikely a test could be completed and evaluated before the March decision, according to Pentagon officials.
This method of delaying the second test until the results of the first test are known should be considered in screening women for trichomoniasis, especially in high-prevalence populations.
Further delays could postpone the test until August, making it unlikely that Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen would have time to review the test data, confer with the military and make a recommendation to Mr. Clinton before the fall.
Her family and the other main owner, Houghton Freeman, who owns about 230 sheep, are asking the government to delay the seizures until additional tests can determine whether the sheep really had a dangerous transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, or T.S.E., a family of diseases that turn the brain spongy with holes.
Hill decided to delay the procedure until winter break.
If they get even a whiff of a bug, they delay the roll out until it can be fixed and re-tested.
By delaying the start of testing until July for most players and then testing only those players who tested positive in 2003 in the last week of September, the commissioner's office and the union reduced the possibility that a player would be publicly identified for testing positive.
