At the same time, however, the Nikkei (optimistically, we must think) urges that the delay be taken as an opportunity to write into the final proposal some essential provisions that were nuanced or avoided in the draft.

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In some cases the drive will take two steps to write data rather than one and introduce a delay of about 5 milliseconds.

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For years, the Commission's reaction to made-up stories (eg, the EU is to scrub all mentions of the Queen from British passports) has been to write a polite letter of correction, and after a delay of some days, put a little item on its website.

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