61.   Yet calling more witnesses, which is still an alternative, would delay the process and further muddy the evidence.

62.   According to the top PLO representative in Jerusalem, Faisal Husseini, who is also attending the conference, Arafat will consider calls to delay the process of statehood.

63.   An appeal could delay the process for years.

64.   Although quick passage of the bills is seen as necessary, a political confrontation threatens to delay the process.

65.   An extradition challenge could delay the process by months.

66.   But in negotiations in Kiev on Thursday, the two sides did not work out a financing plan for the reactors, which Ukraine fears will delay the process.

67.   But political turmoil delayed that process.

68.   But district officials said Saturday they would not delay the process.

69.   But legal wrangling may delay the process because defense lawyers for the governor plan to use time-consuming constitutional arguments.

70.   Delaying that process would give antibiotics more time to work.