Hester said his bonus – now deferred for three years – was not relevant.
Sixty percent of senior executive compensation is now deferred, and for some it is as much as 80 percent, the report said.
The US needs to communicate to Egyptians that it sees their struggle for democracy, now deferred again, as having the same priority and significance as the other nations' (such as South Africa, Myanmar, and Serbia).
I was an occasional donor until a foolish food choice on a tropical vacation gave me a severe case of hepatitis A. Even though repeated blood tests after my recovery showed me to be a permanently immune noncarrier, I am now deferred as a donor for life.
With that ritual now deferred by the United States Supreme Court's intervention, and by the fusillade of lawsuits, charges of election-stealing and attacks on the integrity of the entire vote-counting process, Vice President Al Gore and Gov. George W. Bush have to start raising their sights.
Democrats said narrow victories there might not be enough to stanch a flow of uncommitted superdelegates — elected officials and party leaders — to Mr. Obama, who have until now deferred to the request by Mrs. Clinton's advisers to wait for the vote in the two states.
