Orders are an important indicator, but between signature and delivery many are cancelled, trimmed or postponed.
All official engagements for this week, including a visit to Rome, were either cancelled or postponed.
Her Majesty will have been concerned about the engagements that need to be canceled or postponed.
The 53-year-old has now cancelled or postponed 21 gigs so far this year due to ill health.
Early indications from journalists embedded with American units are that many operations are being cancelled or postponed.
As the New York Times reported last week, 21 companies have withdrawn or postponed IPOs this year.
Airport officials in Calcutta said almost all flights out of the city had been cancelled or postponed until Friday.
What is actually spent is usually lower, as projects are cancelled or postponed.
Since Apr. 1, 104 companies have withdrawn or postponed their public offerings.
Johnson notes that utilities Duke and Xcel have scaled back or postponed previously announced solar projects because of lower demand and high costs.
It's thought the planned three pence a litre increase in fuel duty - due to be introduced in the New Year - will either be reduced or postponed.
Other sporting events to have been cancelled or postponed because of the earthquake include the national swimming championships, the Japanese round of the MotoGP championship and international friendly football games.
And as I mentioned before, there will be times, I'm sure, when a planned stop on a campaign -- for a campaign event has to be delayed or postponed or cancelled because of some pressing business of the presidency.
One of the things that delayed or postponed this process had to do with the opposition of the Nebraska Governor and others in that state to the route that Keystone was proposed to take, the pipeline was proposed to take.
Take care while shopping: Since 2008, a few communities around the country and one large operator, Erickson Retirement Communities, have sought bankruptcy protection. (Erickson was bought and renamed Erickson Living.) Other CCRCs have cut staff, reduced services or postponed opening assisted-living or skilled-nursing units.
Bloomberg counts at least 19 companies that have postponed or withdrawn debt offerings since April 13.
Hopes are raised, and as a result, less flashy but more reliable solutions are sometimes postponed or avoided altogether.
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All official engagements this week will be postponed or canceled, the palace said.
"As a precaution, all official engagements for this week will regrettably be either postponed or cancelled, " the palace said in a statement.
In a survey released last month, Pacific Growth Equities found that 34% of companies had postponed or canceled IT projects since Sept. 8.
Through the first half of this year, 157 initial public offerings have been postponed or withdrawn, the biggest semi-annual showing since the second half of 2000.
All official engagements this week will be postponed or canceled.
Marathon is listed on the IPO calendar as "day-to-day, " according to Dealogic, and the terms might have to be revised or the issue postponed depending on what happens at the SEC.
Vacations may be downsized, postponed or eliminated altogether.
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At the same time dozens of deals like the Chrysler and Alliance Boots loans, have been postponed or canceled in the weeks since investors started getting spooked about credit quality concerns in the mortgage bond markets.
Without adequate staffing and infrastructure, the risk will be that elements of the reform package will be either postponed or adopted in a cursory manner, with no meaningful ability to monitor compliance and enforce against rule-breakers.
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio were also among those calling for the marathon to be postponed or canceled, as well as several others from hard-hit areas in Queens and Staten Island.
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But Mr Yeung has also made several unsuccessful attempts to have the case postponed or struck out - the last in March, when a court rejected as "frivolous" an attempt to have the case moved to the High Court.
While this will result in a short-term increase in spending (as uninsured people begin to receive the care they have postponed or gone without), the rate of growth in spending will slow in the second half of this decade.
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