Word: delayer
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...Perhaps the most telling statistic of all is that the American economy is losing $9 billion a year because of flight delays and cancellations. If a new air traffic control system is not implemented, that number will more than double by 2022, according to the Department of Transportation. "This is a problem that needs fixing right now," says Blakey. It's one delay that the FAA does not want...
...Alaska in early 2006, but a series of structural repairs and upgrades have kept it in warmer waters. For over a year, the nine-story radar that sits atop a self-propelled Norwegian oil platform has been coming and going from Pearl Harbor for fixes and tests - a delay critics see as symptomatic of an agency under pressure to deliver a national missile defense system that is still more fiction than fact...
...deciding whether or not Roberts needs medication to control future episodes, his doctors will also consider the lengthy gap between his two events. "What's unusual in this case is the long delay between the first seizure and the second," says Dr. Jacqueline French, a neurologist at University of Pennsylvania and co-chair of the American Academy of Neurology's guidelines committee, which helps doctors decide when and how to treat seizures. "Typically, if two seizures have occurred close together, there is an up to 80% likelihood that there will be a third, and an almost 100% likelihood that medication...
...fabric of middle-class life. There are gains to the world economy, but those are not so immediate as the pain of a lost job. For those who have been laid off or are worried they will be, it is tempting to fight to stop-or at least delay-the changes that produce such suffering. Already, calls for protectionism are growing louder. In 2006, U.S. senators threatened to slap a 27.5% duty on all imports from China in retaliation for its undervalued currency. Other politicians, aiming at India, have called for limits on white-collar work moving overseas...
...Pakistani opposition groups argue that the U.S. would do better promoting democracy over a single military dictator. Elections are due in a few months. Musharraf wants the current national and provincial assemblies to extend his term before that vote takes place. If they refuse, it's possible he will delay a vote or even use the increasing violence as an excuse to declare martial law--which would fuel more chaos...