Pay-for-delay deals run counter to basic antitrust principles.

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The Committee recommended that the WEU "identify without delay Europe's needs and the means available to it to counter the ballistic missile threat and adopt without delay a joint European position" on the American GPALS system because, the report states, Europe can "no longer postpone" a response.

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But central bank policymaker Halina Wasilewska-Trenkner said Tuesday that she did not expect a significant slowdown in the Polish economy and that the bank should not delay a rate hike to help counter inflation.

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