From the perspective of an executive deciding whether to buy equipment or take on more workers in the months ahead, the latest alert may mean, "Let's postpone those plans until some of these clouds dissipate," Yamarone said.
"You find yourself saying, 'If I can pass 98% of the article, fine, let's postpone the battle for another time,'" he told me.
"When those types of numbers get reported back to the home office, does everyone stay willfully blind and declare a holiday, or does someone say, 'Let's postpone the celebration and take a hard look at these,' " said Neil Getnick of Getnick & Getnick, which specializes in business integrity counseling.
"Let's postpone his jail sentence until May so he can finish a year in college.
"Let's postpone his jail sentence until May so he can finish his year of university.
Speaking by satellite link from Nairobi, Mr. Powell said in an interview on CNN, "We all are concerned that this insurgency is going to continue, but the alternative cannot just be, let's keep postponing elections or let's not have elections". The hope of the United States government, he said, was that Iraqis would come together behind an elected government they could support as their own.
"They are turning this from a legitimate program to try to save people who have the ability to hang on their homes into one that says, forget the willingness and ability to pay, let's just postpone foreclosures," said Edward Pinto, a mortgage industry consultant who served as chief credit officer at Fannie Mae in the late 1980s.
Personally, I was just getting over my PMMS (Postponed MadMen Syndrome), so let's say I was grumpy going into it.
Don't let it slip into the background or postpone it, emphasize that this is important to you.
