The American Medical Association, the giant doctors' group, believes pay-for-delay agreements undermine the balance between spurring innovation through patents and fostering competition through generics, AMA President Dr. Jeremy A., Lazarus said.

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As a way to teach the mechanics of credit, open up a credit card offer and walk your child through what it means to delay paying, carry a balance and pay interest.

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He also worries that the closeness of the balance of power in the Senate could delay things still further, particularly given the recent history of using the appointments process to wage a guerrilla war against the administration.

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For decades women have struggled with how to balance their career with reproductive plans, and some have opted to delay childbearing in order to advance in the workplace.

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Backing the case for delay, shadow health minister Baroness Thornton said the "balance of public interest" lay with disclosure of the risk register, so peers could make the legislation as effective as possible.

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Asked about the delay highlighted by the Ombudsman, he said "we have to balance the need for transparency with the need to consider the legitimate interests of the third party".

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Republicans should have, in our view, done what they had done just a few months before, which is pass a short-term measure to delay implementation of the sequester, a measure that would have represented the balance that the public supports, asking the well-off and well-to-do to pay a little bit, not just seniors and middle-class families, and that then regular order could have continued as it is now, but without the sequester.

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