The problem, a review panel concluded last November, is that an unreasonably low budget and poor management by NASA forced the program to keep deferring work to subsequent years, which drives up costs.
Michael Griffin says he plans to scale back space station research, defer work on a future Mars robotic mission, inject more cash into NASA's struggling Earth science effort, and back a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa using conventional rather than nuclear propulsion.
The chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Kent Conrad, announced Thursday that the panel would indefinitely defer work on a budget for the coming fiscal year.
The California Independent System Operator may ask power-plant owners to defer maintenance work on Monday to ensure sufficient supplies, Ms. O'Donley said.
Update: Diamond met his client's request, deferring work for the holiday and completing the job the next day.
But Mr. Ozzie's company, concentrating on the Windows world, has deferred work on an Apple version.
Bigger savings, Griffin says, would come from deferring work on human exploration technologies, reducing the number of contractors involved in building a new human exploration vehicle, and scaling back the Prometheus nuclear propulsion system championed by his predecessor Sean O'Keefe (Science, 30 January 2004, p. 614).
Countries with PAYG schemes could raise taxes now, reducing the deficit and thus the debt burden on the younger generations.We want it nowBut more savings or higher taxation now would require those currently at work to defer consumption.
The issue of driver's licenses for the undocumented became urgent when the Obama administration decided last summer to defer deportations and grant work authorization for certain immigrants who were brought here illegally as children but had clean records and met other qualifications.
She said that press reports about HMG plans to defer Trident replacement design work 'came as news' to FCO and MoD officers … "Diana Venn (protect), an officer in the Cabinet Office's foreign and defence policy secretariat, told Poloff July 23 that there had been a 'slight misunderstanding' when McDonald briefed the press.
