11.   Arafat, for his part, expressed sensitivity to Israeli security concerns that have delayed plans for a pullback in the West Bank.

12.   As a result, several companies have delayed plans to sell bonds until the stock and bond markets steady and investor appetite picks up.

13.   As US stock markets went into freefall Friday, several dot-com companies hastily scrubbed or delayed plans for initial public offerings of stock.

14.   Both companies have delayed original plans as they grapple with the challenges of electronic commerce.

15.   A forecast of snow mixed with rain delayed plans to resume garbage and recycling collection Friday, said the sanitation commissioner, John J. Doherty.

16.   A more serious charge is that his senior aides suppressed, then delayed plans for tougher standards for poultry inspection.

17.   A number of companies have delayed their plans for a public offering or lowered their offering prices.

18.   A number of international investors either pulled out of Mexico or delayed plans to start businesses there.

19.   All those dollars, and New York is missing out because it keeps delaying plans to enlarge the Javits Center.

20.   But a similar explosion last year delayed the plans of several American media companies to offer a package of satellite television services in Asia.