Boston has had better luck with its unions, who have recently given up pay rises or deferred them.Union concessions are also needed to reduce pension and health costs.
As for our national obsession, possibly more pervasive than handwringing about the plight of association football - to wit, when will interest rates go up - the latest GDP figures perhaps indicate, as I mentioned recently, that the timing of the first tiny rise may be deferred a bit.
This week he turned it on Chloe Smith, a junior Treasury minister, who arrived on Newsnight to defend the deferred 3p rise in fuel duty because George Osborne was eating something, somewhere, and couldn't make it.
Plans for a second high-rise tower have been deferred for now, said Seth Bland, a partner in the development group.
This dream, of late, has been deferred by the rise of cloud services like SugarSync and Dropbox but two hard drive manufacturers, Buffalo and Iomega, have come out with compelling devices that seem to finally allow home and home office users to get the benefits of cloud hosting with the safety of complete control over your data.
Since 2010, the Chancellor said scrapped or deferred fuel duty rises have saved motorists the equivalent of £11 each time they go to refuel.
She also ran up a debt of $17,000 in student loans, a sum that rose to $20,000 as she deferred payments.
Campaigners have bombarded ministers, MPs and the media with letters demanding that the decision to speed up a rise in the state pension age be deferred.
The BBC has delayed a rise in pension contributions to 7.5% by six months, and deferred a decision on whether to raise the retirement age from 60 to 65, until next year's pension valuation is done.
In state after state, tuition and class size are rising, jobs are being eliminated, maintenance is being deferred and the number of nonresident students, who pay higher tuition, is increasing.
