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This raises an interesting question: was the downfall of Tudjmanism postponed by the opposition's fear of appearing more radical than was believed to be practical?
The economic weaknesses were simply being postponed to some future date; the Bush administration hoped that the day of reckoning would come after November 2008.
And yet efforts to finalize an agreement have been repeatedly postponed.
And the increase in the tax on oil producers, implemented when the oil price stood at $160 per barrel, had to be postponed when the price per barrel fell to $30.
So he postponed the cuts until 2011 and plotted a shallower deficit-reduction path.
In addition, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov has said that the government must use this year’s pension contributions for projects in Crimea, while some highway construction has been postponed indefinitely.
The longer this choice is postponed, the greater the economic and political cost that ultimately will have to be paid.
Unfortunately, it is much more likely that, at least ahead of Germany’s autumn 2013 elections, key decisions will be postponed or avoided.
But Wade postponed legislative elections, originally scheduled for June 2006, first to February 2007, and later, by presidential decree, to June 2007.
Two weeks ago there were almost daily discussions about the possibility of the presidential elections being postponed indefinitely .
But trying to reduce it now will be a net burden on future generations: income will be lowered immediately, profits will fall, pension funds will be diminished, investment projects will be canceled or postponed, and houses, hospitals, and schools will not be built.
Addressing conflicts among government coalition parties, as well as within individual government parties, was postponed until after official EU entry.
If his treatment is prolonged, he might try governing with rotating vice-presidents, and, if a prompt cure or prolonged treatment are not possible and elections are postponed, an uncertain transition would be hastened.
Thus, governments stand to gain stronger political support for reforms that cannot be postponed any longer.
Meetings with foreign governments on human rights--during which information is provided on political cases--have been postponed and visits by monitors, including one from the World Psychiatric Association to investigate charges of psychiatric abuse, are on hold.
Today, the Federal Reserve has kept its benchmark rate below 1.5% – 350 basis points lower than in 1999 – and has postponed any reduction in its bloated balance sheet.
We could only conjecture what would have happened if it had not postponed the day of reckoning for so long – or if it had tried to put it off further.
Already, companies active in the Russian market are reporting problems finding funding, and cross-border investments are being postponed.
The increase in inflation that usually occurs when the economy reaches such employment levels has been temporarily postponed by the decline in the price of oil and by the 20% rise in the value of the dollar.
The Warner-Lieberman bill on climate change – a piece of legislation which was recently abandoned in the US Senate but is seen as a precursor of future policy – would have postponed the temperature increase in 2050 by about two years.
The text of the Lisbon treaty is studiously vague in its job description of the president’s role – an approach that prevented trouble for treaty’s framers, but merely postponed disagreement.
The benefits – growing consumption and more jobs – were immediate, whereas paying the inevitable bill could be postponed into the future.
Indeed, he has scheduled and then postponed visits to Indonesia three times already.
The longer such policies are postponed, the longer we may inhabit the inverted world of negative nominal interest rates.
For starters, a Greek exit from the eurozone may have been only postponed, not prevented, as pension and other structural reforms put the country on a collision course with its European creditors.
Of course, it should be noted that if economic reform in resource-rich Africa had been proceeding at the same pace as in Asia, the era of soaring commodity prices might have been postponed for another century.
Already, the US Federal Reserve, relying on its contacts in the domestic business community, has warned that corporate investment plans could be “scaled back or postponed” because of uncertainty over global trade relations.
At the opposite extreme is what is often called the “precautionary” principle, now popular in the European Union: until something – for example, genetically modified foods – is guaranteed safe, it must be postponed indefinitely, despite substantial expected benefits.
But it may be more successful if it can use a postponed UFG as leverage.
But, more important, it postponed the new government’s appointment by a day so that it could vet the incoming ministerial candidates.
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