Any delay in the multiple-line system will stop the line completely, while a delay in a single line might just delay one shopper.

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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 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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During a five-hour delay, Abony, a lawyer who had recently quit his job, tried to convince her to join the on-line pet company he had just founded.

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