This line of defense indicates DeLay has decided he can survive by hardening his base and keeping it active, much as President Bush did in winning re-election.

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Mash the pedal in Auto EV mode and, after the electric motor pulls you off the line, there's a brief delay before the gasoline engine comes to life and the CVT raises the RPMs to maximize efficiency.

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He put himself in charge of GM's most important and sickly unit, GM North America, and said he would delay building a rear-wheel-drive car line so he could move up production of the company's next generation large SUVs like the Chevrolet Tahoe and GMC Yukon.

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But some of the top-line gain, Del Vecchio says, came from a delay in orders that would ordinarily have shown up in the September quarter, and some came from an acquisition.

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In Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea, mobile-telephone tariffs are often as low as or lower than fixed-line rentals, and the service can often be connected with less delay.

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This line had its desired impact at that meeting, and it has helped DeLay energize his troops on a broad front.

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In addition, the Controller can delay restart or sequence re-start of appliances to prevent them from coming-back on line simultaneously after a power outage, which can also cause unstable grid conditions.

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Even American officials, who were saying a week ago they did not need one, now take the line that a resolution would be welcome so long as it did not produce endless delay.

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