Finally, in recent years, manufacturing violations have cost the industries millions in delays, injunctions and fines, and companies were forced to confront their creaky factories.
The equipment supplier, Resources Conservation Company International, an affiliate of General Electric, said in a statement that the injunction delayed delivery of machinery that could save billions of gallons a year in water, which is used in vast amounts in the type of oil recovery used at the tar sands.
Upon progression, the teaser and poster launch event was delayed, following an injunction order from the court, which had directed the makers of the film not to use the Thuppakki title in any form.
The N.F.L. has asked that the deadline, which is next Monday, be extended until July 6, arguing that the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit is likely to have decided on the appeal of the now-delayed injunction that would end the lockout.
Such a decision would prompt a flurry of appeals, as the Justice Department almost certainly would ask the judge and then the appellate courts to stay, or delay, the injunction pending the outcome of higher court rulings.
The judge, Donald W. Stephens of Superior Court, signed a preliminary injunction delaying the Feb. 9 execution of James A. Campbell, 45, who was convicted of killing a woman in 1993.
The judge had delayed the effect of that preliminary injunction order until June.
Microsoft's conciliatory moves on the desktop and browsers are partly designed to avert any court injunctions delaying its release of Windows XP and to earn itself some good will in advance of any settlement talks.
In Harrisburg, Pa., on Tuesday, a federal judge again delayed the government's request for an injunction to stop him and retrieve his client lists.
Lynda Grant, a lawyer for one of the shareholders that sought the injunction, said the new vote might be delayed a few weeks.
He rejected the application to issue an injunction against the BBC1 show, which had already been delayed by a week.
