"It's part of their ongoing strategy — if you can't kill the rule, you may as well delay it as long as possible," said Dennis Kelleher, president of Better Markets, a nonprofit group that advocates stricter financial regulation.
The package agreed last week may well be delayed or even unravel.
As a result, any tapering will not begin until December at the earliest, and may well be delayed into next year.
Rogers went in the manner of a seasoned professional, accepting philosophically one of those twists of fate which may well have delayed his arrival at the top of his game.
This special report, in contrast, has argued that if such a spring were to be on its way, the internet may well be delaying its arrival, not hastening it.China's problems in the real world are mounting.
That is because in cyberspace, each digital packet of data is generally treated identically to each of the others; at a company, the chairman's urgent e-mail message may well be delayed as an intern browses the Web for sports scores.
A decision about where the 10 ecotowns will be sited, with the first five to be built by 2016, is expected at the end of this month - although a public announcement may well be delayed until MPs get back from their summer holidays.
This in-depth account gives us the war on terror at its best and worst: the dogged agents who cultivated intelligence and ran down every semi-credible lead as they chased one of the world's most dangerous terrorists; and the bureaucratic infighting that may well have delayed Khalid Shaikh Mohammed's capture.
Thus the move to a national market, which seemed assured by the 1993 reforms, has now been delayed, probably for several years and, if China does import enough grain for its large cities and the coastal area, the national market may well be delayed for decades.
In the real world, however, you may well choose to delay your start-date again.In a 1999 paper* on the economics of procrastination, Ted O'Donoghue and Matthew Rabin pointed out that people are often unrealistically optimistic about their own future likelihood of doing things—such as exercise or saving that involve costs at the time they are done, but whose benefits lie even further ahead.
