There are always paper alternatives, but those can be so slow and clunky that they might take three or four months to complete, and can be so complex that people will hire a lawyer to do them rather than risk further delay.
If so (and assuming this is sufficiently transparent to researchers), this would seem to invite interesting gambling on the part of researchers who believe that they have an expeditable study but don't want to risk further delays in case the IRB members(s) in charge of making that determination disagree.
But opposition parties led by the Social Democrats have said that they will not endorse further austerity measures because such measures would hurt elderly people and other vulnerable members of society, and could risk further delaying Portugal's return to economic growth.
Yukelson said landlords can wait weeks for an inspection and can then be dinged for minor violations that don't put tenants at risk, further delaying move-in and collection of rent during a time of high demand.
Particularly for HIV and TB tests, patients have to shunt between locations risking further delays and loss to follow-up.
The difficulty of adding electoral reform is the risk of further delay.
Since TPA is an experimental drug, Dr. Walsh has got to obtain the patient's consent for its use, even at the risk of further delay.
The competition body acknowledges that asking Lloyds to put more branches in to the TSB network could risk "incurring further delay and additional sunk costs" but wants steps to be taken to ensure that the TSB offshoot attains a 4.6% share of the current account market.
We have been concerned about ongoing capital expenditure inflation and the risk of further delays at the company's enormous Minas Rio iron ore project, operating challenges at Anglo Platinum, structural cost inflation in South Africa, and a variety of other issues, including management's track record of questionable investment decisions.
The proposed postponement to the halogen lamp phase-out is due to be voted on in Brussels by representatives of all 28 EU states early next year and any delay to the original Ecodesign proposal could risk institutionalising further delays, according to Borg.
