11.   Clinton deferred a decision on the dams pending the outcome of alternative salmon recovery efforts.

12.   FCC officials deferred their decisions on expanding the capabilities to include providing location information in cellular telephone networks and embracing Internet packet-switching technology.

13.   General Manager Dave Taylor is deferring personnel decisions until after the season.

14.   Goldman Sachs Japan, which was negotiating to become an anchor tenant at Roppongi Hills, has deferred any decision.

15.   He deferred the decision, which was left open.

16.   He says Washington has taken no position and would defer its decision as to whether newcomers should be given this powerful weapon.

17.   His cautious, incremental approach, which seeks to defer major decisions, would find an audience now.

18.   If the court finds that the law is ambiguous, it would defer its decision to the NCUA, which is authorized by Congress to administer the law.

19.   In addition the policy would defer a decision on logging in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska for five years.

20.   In Congress, Democrats, scores of whom had urged Clinton to defer all decisions on the system, applauded the move.