The bill passed by the Senate, with 89 senators in favour and eight against, is a messy, short-term deal that raises taxes on the wealthiest but postpones for two months any consideration of spending cuts.
It postpones spending cuts for two months, to allow further negotiations.
It postpones the first rate hike to the fourth quarter of 2014, that is exactly the date just announced by the Fed.
In Britain, the ELSA study suggests, being well-off and well-educated postpones by about 15 years the onset of mental and physical disability compared with being in the lowest social group.There are big differences between social classes in life expectancy, and even bigger differences in healthy life expectancy.
And the longer he postpones an election, the more his personal authority will ebb.Reformists within the party are now frustrated, whereas others have defected to other parties.
THE president, apparently in a fit of pique, in October abruptly postpones a long-planned summit with Britain.
Outraged, yes, but it took two years and German resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare in early 1917 (which Mr Roberts strangely postpones to that September) to bring America to war surely the longest reaction-time in the history of galvanism.
Better still, the longer Mr Blair postpones the referendum, the more salt he can rub into the Tories' unhealed Euro-wounds.It is when you look further ahead that the outlook darkens.
The hope had been that the two presidents might accept a statement of basic principles that postpones final decisions on sovereignty, while Armenians withdraw from occupied territory and the borders reopen.
And as before, he postpones half the pain to the next parliament but one: not until 2017-18 is the current budget (which excludes net investment) back in balance.Another dividing line that Labour is keen to draw has to do with readiness to raise taxes on the better-off.
Mrs Reinhart thinks more fiscal stimulus merely postpones the necessary adjustment, because it replaces private debt with even greater public borrowing.The euro zone's sovereign-debt crisis has reminded governments everywhere that heavy public debt risks more than just crowding out private investment.
