It's also discouraging people from setting up new businesses and it's putting off potential foreign investors.
More young people are living alone and putting off marriage, choosing pets for company instead.
Standard Life said that was partly due to companies putting off changes to their pension plans.
If that's the case, then I think putting off the tax increases makes a lot of sense.
There are families who are putting off retirement to make sure their kids can go to college.
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In the process, both politicians are giving voters the option of putting off painful deficit reduction measures.
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Secretary for Works Kwong Hon-sang has argued that putting off the opening would have made little difference.
Mr Toledo's critics fear that by putting off economic reforms he has squandered the chance of that.
This is a continuation of my series about knocking out those financial chores you may be putting off.
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At the same time, some are putting off visits to China and pulling out of China-based research projects.
Over the last few weeks it looked like the Fed might get by with putting off action again.
Today, take a couple minutes and think about what you may have been putting off doing in finance.
Putting off such matters will only store up trouble for the Czechs' future.
They kept putting off plans to hire more workers and grow their businesses.
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Traders in some towns claim charges are putting off customers with some shops even offering to refund the cost.
And while Harry has been fighting for us, too many folks in Washington have been putting off hard decisions.
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Their creation even sometimes seems to be a way of putting off decisions.
It banned him from the industry for putting off his testimony in the spinning case while he awaited trial on the obstruction charges.
That would mean putting off the actual trial but allowing pre-trial "discovery, " including questioning of the principals and potential witnesses.
But our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions -- that time has surely passed.
They feared Il Cavaliere (the Knight), as Mr Berlusconi likes to call himself, was endangering the eurozone by putting off reforms.
Most of these nations have had a long-standing habit of putting off real reform by taking the drug of currency devaluation.
But our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions - that time has surely passed.
He said he will challenge them to prove they can meet students' needs after putting off their promises to increase funding.
And there are small businesses right now who are putting off plans to hire more workers because this bill is stalled.
This is intended to ease the cost burden on employers and to avoid putting off employees by cutting their wages too sharply.
Workers are defaulted into a commitment to increase their saving rate later, thus putting off the pain of having less cash to spend.
When they diverge they generally agree to differ, putting off difficult decisions in a way that critics say amounts to dodging the issues.
I, too, am guilty of putting off doctor appointments when I am ill because it is more stressful to me than the illness.
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Do you have any hints as to staff changes that might happen that you have been putting off until the end of the year?
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