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Proctor requested that the patent examination be continued, submitting additional patent claims and even changing his lawyers several times (allowing more bureaucratic delay).
If NATO is to succeed, this must change without further delay.
Corruption, bureaucratic delay, excessive regulation, and even a failure of basic police protection are a bigger problem in Moscow.
The problem with this approach is that it would only delay the essential challenge of raising labor productivity.
Assad will seek in 2014 to delay the actual implementation of the chemical-weapons deal, in order to gain time to split and weaken his opponents further.
First, as opposed to many countries that delay action until it is too late, Prime Minister Edi Rama called in the IMF as soon as he got into power in September 2013.
If orderly treatment of unsecured senior creditors requires a new cross-border regime to close down insolvent European banks, such a regime should be implemented without delay.
In addition, Germany should delay its fiscal consolidation; if anything, it should cut taxes for a couple of years to boost its own growth and – via trade – that of the periphery.
In poor countries, women are almost always primary caregivers, and their responsibility for children, the elderly, the sick, and the disabled can delay evacuations.
All this creates distortions that delay adjustment – exchange rates are too low in emerging markets, slowing their move away from exports, while the ease with which the US government is being financed creates little incentive for US politicians to reduce spending over the medium term.
Diplomats trudged off to conferences year after year to implement them, but the main results were neglect, delay, and bickering over legalities.
The lesson from the first round of Western globalization was that natural-resource specialization, especially in the poorest countries, can delay industrialization, economic diversification, and the creation of productive capacity.
And now the concerns have grown to the point that delay is no longer an option.
The US Senate’s rushed and highly partisan 1999 vote against ratification – and its failure to reconsider the treaty since then – has given the seven other states that must ratify the CTBT a reason for delay.
The G-7 foreign ministers’ declaration on April 11 in Hiroshima – “No state should conduct a nuclear test explosion and all states should sign and ratify the CTBT without delay” – is a good start.
After initially trying to delay reunification, France embraced it, in exchange for Germany’s reaffirming its commitment to European unity and Franco-German leadership of the European community.
In other words, external pressures, too, are likely to pull Libya in several different directions, which will only further delay an autonomous and sustainable state-building process.
No doubt, government macroeconomic management that is too strong may delay necessary market-oriented reforms.
This effective benefit reduction was politically possible because the change began only after a substantial delay and has since been phased in over several decades.
As it is, the Fed will almost certainly delay raising rates for a while longer.
Third, as the IFIs play an even more crucial role, further delay in reforming them to include major emerging-market economies will only harm their effectiveness and legitimacy.
Making matters worse, the promise of a long transition could delay the shift in public opinion needed to reverse Brexit before it is too late.
The Chinese can delay, but they can't hide from a fundamental economic law: if the exchange rate between the currencies of two countries is fixed and capital flows between them are unrestricted, the economically dominant one will exercise control over the monetary policy of the other.
As tempting as they are, quick fixes like capital controls merely provide a false sense of security and delay needed adjustments in an economy.
For example, bankers and corporate managers get bonuses for “performance,” but not reverse bonuses for negative performance, and they have an incentive to bury risks in the tails of the distribution – in other words, to delay blowups.
The potential economic cost of a delay or a failure to achieve closer transatlantic economic integration could total hundreds of billions of dollars – in addition to the incalculable damage done to America’s credibility in Europe.
Unfortunately for Republicans, they haven’t figured out how to replace Obamacare, so their current policy is “repeal and delay.”
There is, however, a solution to this problem: Governments and parliaments can delay action without postponing decision.
Moreover, 55% said they would delay investments in projects with positive returns in order to hit quarterly balance-sheet targets.
The opposite is true for virtual reality headsets, which require ultra-low delay, or latency, to give viewers an immersive experience.
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