"These guys realize that the pain of delaying reform is actually worse than the pain of reform."

He states that Arabs should no longer use the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and security fears to justify delaying such reform.

Delaying reform until Social Security's insolvency is imminent would necessitate drastic changes over a shorter period.

Moreover, in strengthening the performance of the weakest Japanese banks, quantitative easing may have had the undesired impact of delaying structural reform.

It delayed reform because it had a consolidating effect and politicians could use the anti-South African sentiment...as a political platform to gather their people together...

Today's Columns Lithuania's struggle for independence may cause President Mikhail S. Gorbachev to delay or abandon economic reform.

A patently insincere search for technical perfection is becoming an increasingly obvious ruse for those trying to delay and kill reform.

Hank Morris, an investment adviser with a similar number of years in Seoul, said South Koreans did not have the luxury of delaying reform.

State enterprises have been able to delay structural reform, while the state continues to regulate key industries and restrain exports.

As some observers see it, the industry wants to delay reform indefinitely.