I can rigorously prioritize and decide that some will be quickly finished and others postponed, or I can spread the money across all the projects, deferring the completion dates for all of them but postponing none.
Mr. Patrick, a Democrat, had nothing to do with the Big Dig but the project deferred investments that he says should have been made in aging infrastructure and increased repair costs that are necessary now.
"Because all of these projects were deferred, and are coming all at once, at the end of this construction cycle, a 45,000-seat baseball stadium that cost $120 million in Baltimore in 1992 will cost a half-billion or more in New York".
Source: Center for Strategic and International Studies Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter Branch Armyy Sunk Costs: $0.5 billion Follow-On: The project was deferred following the Army's decision to field a mix of drones and AH-64Es instead.
But, because it was not clear which administrative budget should cover the expense, only Vieira de Mello's office and the cafeteria were treated; the rest of the project was deferred.
Hoping to duplicate the success of earlier graphic-book projects that began as Smith magazine Web comics (including Mr. Neufeld's nonfiction account of Hurricane Katrina survivors, "A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge"), the Pekar Project contributors deferred compensation for their online work, with the possibility of a payday if a book was published.
This led to the project being deferred until at least 2012.
The script ran into difficulties after accusations from Eon Productions that the project had gone beyond copyright restrictions, which confined McClory to a film based on the Thunderball novel only, and once again the project was deferred.
From November through February, even as they rushed through nearly 200 big projects, they rejected or deferred 14 other projects worth $15 billion, including paper and petrochemical plants, they said.
One in 10 charities has made staff salary cuts and redundancies and almost a third have deferred projects.
