After a storm of negative comments from users and a letter of complaint to the F.T.C. by privacy advocates, the company delayed adoption of the policy.
But events since then have delayed adoption of the consensus, including public attention paid to a visit to Beijing by the United States Treasury secretary, Timothy F. Geithner, followed by the Qinghai earthquake and now the euro's slide.
The state's two top legislative leaders delayed adoption of a state budget today to give Gov. George E. Pataki more time to sign onto their spending plan, even as they sent a strong message to the Republican governor that they had the votes and willingness to act without him.
The delayed adoption of this technique for cognitive studies may stem partly from a lack of information on the reproducibility of these measures in the context of cognitive tasks.
The delayed adoption of farming, ceramics, mudbrick architecture, metallurgy, and other technologies until the start of the 3rd millennium BCE has been a particularly salient feature of this region relative to its neighbours in Mesopotamia, southern Iran, and northwestern South Asia.
Moreover, the interaction of socioeconomic, cultural, and material conditions with fundamental aspects of traditional gender roles may have contributed to the delayed adoption of risky behaviour among women.
The model mentioned above could be extended further by allowing for delayed adoption of the new technology, thereby making it possible to calculate short-run efficiency losses for a technology that is implemented gradually.
Those who support transracial adoptions counter that race-matching or trying to find parents from the child's ethnic group can delay adoptions of minority children and that the practice should not be resurrected.
In another long-trailed announcement, the new bill will stop local authorities in England from delaying adoptions in the hope of finding a perfect racial match for the child if there are couples waiting to adopt.
What else delays adoptions?
