The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the state agency that runs the city's subways, buses and commuter trains, has warned that it is so far in the red that it may have to raise fares, trim service, defer repairs and cut major projects.
More than your average GP, when disaster strikes he doubles up as Australia's surgeon general, who all healthcare professionals and even the emergency services defer to.
Crisis management has already seen capital spending – central to many service changes – deferred or cut at the government's behest.
The balancing act, officials say, is to find ways to slash expenses and raise money without endangering the city's recovery from the attack on the World Trade Center, or resorting to the level of layoffs, service cuts and deferred maintenance triggered by the 1970's fiscal crisis -- service cuts that still haunt the urban imagination.
When Ms. Colner's BMW recently came due for its 90,000-mile service check, she deferred the work.
If the channel can be released before the PU's waiting time is due, then the PU can access the target channel and the PU's service is only deferred.
This study defined export credit as "a guarantee, insurance, financing, refinancing or interest rate support arrangement provided by a government which allows a foreign buyer of exported goods and/or services to defer payments over a period of time".
Meanwhile, the secretary of health and human services has unilaterally deferred implementation of two of the most controversial rules until Aug. 1 in an attempt to negotiate some compromises with Congress.
Projects get delayed, deferred maintenance gets deferred again, and the service falls further behind.
In addition, federal loan repayments can generally be deferred during service.
