But after the onerous delay, Geller, who looks like a high school football coach, got back $300,000, plus 2,000 shares of stock in Retrophin he eventually sold for $315,000.
Onerous paperwork regularly delays projects for months and inflates costs.
Hill acknowledged that some might find the delay onerous, but, he said, he liked it: "It makes things more sociable".
Essentially that means demanding that applicants produce documents they are unlikely to have available, putting them through an onerous interview process, delaying decisions, and rejections without explanations.
Many owners of small businesses in Lower Manhattan have complained bitterly about what they call the paltry packages of government aid for businesses struggling to stay alive since the Sept. 11 attack, and about application processes they find onerous and filled with delays.
Seward was exasperated by Johnson, but he agreed, Stahr writes, "that the southern states should be allowed to govern themselves, and to rejoin the national government, without undue delay or onerous conditions".
While their health care at the clinic cost them nothing -- they are Native Americans, using a facility that was partly financed by the federal government -- the delays were so onerous that those who could afford to get their health care elsewhere did so.
States cannot pass laws banning abortion outright and so they impose restrictions, such as waiting periods, to delay women, along with onerous requirements that cause abortion clinics to shut down.
But Administration officials insist the delay is due to the delayed transition following the contested election and onerous paperwork requirements.
The consequences of the delays for families desperate to return were onerous.
