Some couldn't keep pace with others, forcing Microsoft to sometimes delay key releases so partners could absorb them and create the hardware needed for them.
Economists are divided about the potential benefits of fresh stimulus, and Bernanke could point the stronger labor market as a key reason to delay any plans.
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But there is ample precedent where the administration took its own discretion to largely ignore implementation deadlines and otherwise tweak or delay key aspects of the statute.
Foreign investors have also been wary of entering the Indian market amid a delay in key reforms.
Meanwhile, foreign investors have also been wary of entering the country amid a delay in key reforms.
Meanwhile, a delay in key economic reforms has seen foreign investors become wary of entering the country.
There have been concerns that its growth rate may slow further, not least because of a delay in key reforms, which have hurt foreign investment.
At the same time, foreign investors have been wary of entering the market amid a delay in key reforms, leading to concerns that its growth may slow further in the coming months.
But Wall Street analyst are skittish about what will happen, especially after the unrelated delay of a key experimental bone drug.
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On the same day that Encysive got its bad news, Cubist Pharmaceuticals announced a two-month delay on a key new marketing claim for its antibiotic.
John Dingell and Bart Stupak on Friday released new documents they say raise "serious concerns" about the delay of reporting key results of a key study of the cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin.
On the same day that Encysive got its bad news, Cubist Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: CBST - news - people ) announced a two-month delay on a key new marketing claim for its antibiotic.
In the latest of a long string of disappointments, management announced that its new line of phones would not be out until late 2012 instead of the first quarter and cited the availability of key component parts as the reason for the delay.
As one example, there is a six-month delay in the case of distributions to key employees from publicly held corporations.
In a statement, cable network AMC said the delay was "due to ongoing, key non-cast negotiations" with creator and executive producer Matt Weiner.
Another key factor is the PBGC, which has allowed some large firms to delay restructuring their employee retirement plans by allowing them to offload their pensions onto it.
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But Wall Street money mavens know that not only can they bully the SEC to delay or snuff the fiduciary rule as long as Republicans control key House committees, they can channel the all-important flow of money to get those anti-investor Congressmen re-elected.
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Chipshot.com, a golf e-commerce company, could have resorted to equity funding when it was running low on cash last winter, but it wanted to delay another round for 60 daysto let a national ad campaign soak in and to hire key employees.
Abramoff is also a close friend of Tom DeLay's, and Democrats are now alleging Abramoff's lobbying firm worked with another key Republican: Ethics Committee Chairman Doc Hastings.
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