Sentences with phrase «of decades of delay»

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A procedural snafu could delay passage of one of the biggest overhauls to the tax code in three decades.

In his new bestseller, The Next Decade, Friedman argues that capital shortages, the impending down cycle in U.S. military spending and an aging population that drains public coffers mean the arrival of the next wave of «truly transformative» technologies will be delayed.

Due to the power of compound interest, even a seemingly tiny 0.5 % difference in fees can cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars and delay your retirement by years, even decades.

In manufacturing, supply chain delays remained widespread, with average delivery times once again lengthening to one of the greatest extents seen in the survey's two - decade history.

Boeing hands over the first 787 Dreamliner to end more than three years of delays for a plane that the company says will become a benchmark for decades for technology and passenger amenities.

Emancipation might have been delayed for decades if a minority of diehard idealists had not made such a fuss insisting on a philosophically consistent application of the ideals of liberty and equality under the law.

Former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey resigned as honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Oxford after the public inquiry into child sex abuse last year heard he delayed a «proper investigation» into Ball's crimes for two decades by failing to pass information to police.

While these groups had owned radio stations in different parts of the country for several decades, the scarcity of television frequencies delayed their entry into the television market.

The conservative turn in politics over the last decade is a long - delayed response, now led in significant part by evangelicals, the heirs of the fundamentalists who went into cultural exile almost a century ago.

«A brief delay in unlawful deportation of residents who have lived here with government permission for over a decade outweighs the public interest in prompt execution of removal orders, where petitioners have been law - abiding and pose no threat to public safety,» Saris wrote.

A most dramatic change of heart did, in fact, come from a most unexpected quarter, with a delay of some four decades after Einstein's telegram.

On another health front, recommendations to tighten the regulation of «alternative», often ineffective, medicines have been either put on hold or delayed, despite a decade of expert calls for action.

With over a decade of experience working in hospitals, agencies, and schools throughout New York City and Westchester County, Dr. Raskin has supported families with children struggling with emotional and behavioral regulation, anxiety, and developmental delays and disabilities.

After nearly two decades of delays, Arlington Heights officials are now forging ahead with plans to make Lake Arlington park a thriving recreation area.

«As we all know, the subway system has suffered from years of overcrowding and decades of neglected maintenance, resulting in choleric breakdowns and delays,» said Scott Rechler, an MTA board member and Fix NYC panel member.

After decades of delays, the Second Avenue subway will debut on New Year's.

It notes that 150 courthouses have been closed in the past decade, causing those involved to travel further and even resulting in some cases being cancelled, and says a lack of clerks and legal advisors is causing further delays to the system.

After over a decade of delays, deflections, and denials by Mr. Greenberg, we are pleased that Mr. Greenberg has finally admitted to his role in these fraudulent transactions and will personally pay $ 9 million to the State of New York.»

It also points out that smaller regional airports have been damaged by «decades of delay» in the hub airport system.

The project was delayed for over a decade because of a myriad of obstacles, including a long U.L.U.R.P process and trouble securing funding after the economic crisis, Rapfogel said.

Many of the signals in the city's subway system are decades old, and when they break, they often take hours to fix, forcing the agency to reroute, delay or cancel dozens of trains.

His administration said that after «more than a decade of discussion and delay,» Cuomo swooped into office and «pushed the project forward from dysfunction to construction in less than one year.»

At a public hearing Tuesday, Department of Transportation Secretary Mark Gottlieb said the condition of Wisconsin's roads will worsen over the next 10 years and projects will be delayed for decades without an increase in spending.

The New York Democrat, in a posting on Medium, wrote there are «serious weaknesses» in the first decade of the agreement, including the provisions laid down for weapons inspections as well as a 24 - hour delay for inspections when detecting radioactivity.

«After decades of delay, today we took action to fundamentally change the economy on Long Island and secure its future prosperity,» Cuomo said in a statement.

But for skeptics, the roughly $ 4 billion in public costs and decades of delays that preceded this event make the project a symbol of government's shortcomings.

Strict drug laws have delayed those types of studies for decades, Slot said.

If CH2Cl2 emissions continue to rise at the rate seen in the last decade, recovery of the ozone hole would be delayed about 30 years, the researchers estimate in Nature Communications.

It's also possible that the beginning of the next 11 - year solar cycle — which is marked by the emergence of dark blemishes called sunspots at high solar latitudes — may simply be delayed by a few years, rather than shut down for decades.

Faced with a dearth of the decades - old chemotherapy drug doxorubicin — a result of manufacturing delays and increased demand — Esserman's team substituted the drug epirubicin.

A simple, quick operation enables women to generate young eggs as they get older — and could even delay the effects of menopause by decades

The belief that has been rooted in the scientific world for 100 years resulted in this delay of several decades,» said Prof. Kanter and his team of researchers, including Shira Sardi, Roni Vardi, Anton Sheinin, and Amir Goldental.

Health experts are questioning the Environmental Protection Agency and Michigan state officials for their decades - long delays in cleanup of a Superfund site that is killing songbirds in yards, possibly leaving people at risk, too

Congress authorized the first $ 200 million in 2003 but unexpectedly delayed a decision on bankrolling EarthScope's next decade of operations and maintenance.

Over decades, the researchers have documented correlations between the ability to delay gratification and life outcomes as diverse as SAT scores, body - mass index, the frequency of drug abuse, and measurable differences in brain functioning, which are visible thanks to modern functional MRI techniques.

Congress, fed up with the EPA's delay of more than a decade, wrote into the 2008 appropriations bill that the screening of possible endocrine - disrupting compounds was to begin last summer.

The anticipated cost increase and delay are causing panic particularly among proponents of the Wide - Field Infrared Space Telescope (WFIRST), a project recently ranked in the influential «Astro2020» report as a top priority for the next decade.

In the United States, the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders has increased about tenfold over the past two decades, and a 2003 report by the Centers for Disease Control suggests that as many as one in every 166 children is now on the autism spectrum, while another one in six suffers from a neurodevelopmental delay.

Most significantly, being bilingual can sharpen the ageing mind, delaying the onset of dementia in those vulnerable to it by as much as half a decade.

But owing to budgetary constraints, the first fully operational satellite of the JPSS, originally planned for launch in 2015, has been delayed until later in the decade.

Similar situations may be found in many areas of the American West in coming decades, the researchers say, and recruitment of new forests may be delayed or prevented — even in climate conditions that might have been able to maintain an existing forest.

The delay of even a decade is far too much, he says.Sydney Morning Herald, 24 Sep 2005

The study, led by Simone Tilmes of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo., warns that such an approach would delay the recovery of the Antarctic ozone hole by decades and cause significant ozone loss over the Arctic.»

To test the idea of delaying resistance with sterile insect releases, the researchers conducted computer simulations and analyzed more than a decade of field data from before and after deployment of this strategy statewide in Arizona.

Lack of international consensus could delay approval by years or even decades.

The ocean's thermal inertia, which delays some global warming for decades and even centuries, is accounted for in global climate models and its effect is confirmed via measurements of Earth's energy balance (see next section).

«Over 70 percent of patients have a delay in diagnosis of at least a year» and sometimes a decade, says Mady Hornig, lead author of the new study and an associate professor of epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

Given my personal experience and decade of delay in entering a fitness competition, I truly look up to any and every person that has mustered up the nerve, desire and dedication to compete.

In the last decade, for example, it has been demonstrated that consuming superfluous (i.e., excessive) doses of antioxidant supplements in an effort to retard free radical production during exercise training actually contributes to increased muscle fatigue and delayed recovery (Teixeira et al., 2009; Close et al., 2006).

It felt like I was waiting a decade for this film, and that last gentle push that nudged its Australian release date into January meant that its foretold (but hardly inevitable) place in my end - of - year list would be delayed by another full calendar year.