That problem has been shelved for the time being.

Tough as negotiations can be on these issues, they simply cannot be shelved.

Not surprisingly, the proposal was quickly shelved. Now, with countless private interest groups trying to water it down into irrelevance, the battle will be firmly on the EU s agenda in 2006.

El Salvador reported that the question of reintroducing capital punishment for ordinary crimes had been the subject of a round of discussions and consultations within the National Legislative Assembly, but the matter had been subsequently shelved.

Duke Energy, America s largest utility, has shelved plans to build two reactors in Florida, after having spent 1 billion on the project. The decision came only three months after the company abandoned investment in two new units in North Carolina.

However, several owners who bought the parking spaces in the community feared that this would affect the price of their parking spaces and doubted that others were selfish, so they had been plotting for bad things. This had shelved the parking space transformation.

That same month, Hungary reelected Gyurcsany, who had pursued a supposedly reformist program, but also oversaw a massive accumulation of public debt. Earlier plans to adopt the euro quickly have now been shelved, with the target date pushed back to 2011 or 2012.

And they shelved the project. And it sat there for 10 years, and then one day Abe Spiegel from Los Angeles, who had lost his three year old son at Auschwitz, came, saw the model, wrote the check and it got built 10 years later.

At an OPEC meeting in the run up to the election, the group s dominant producer, Saudi Arabia, shelved plans to restrict oil production to counteract the rapid decline in world prices, allowing them to continue to fall. This has brought considerable benefits to the oil importing advanced economies including Japan.

None of the other ideas on the European table, including various kinds of structural reform, will provide fast growth in the short term. In September, Portugal planned to pursue a form of internal devaluation, by cutting payroll taxes and increasing the VAT this has now been shelved, presumably because it is politically unworkable.

In practice, the global crisis means that sustainable investments are being curtailed rather than expanded in the developing world. As access to international bank loans, bond flotations, and foreign direct investment is lost, infrastructure projects talked about in the past are now being shelved, threatening the political and economic stability of dozens of developing countries.

NEW DELHI At their recent summit in Cannes, the G 20 shelved, if not buried, the World Trade Organization s moribund Doha Development Round of multilateral trade negotiations. Crisis weary Europe and America face a rising tide of protectionism at home, and are trying to find ways to blunt the edge of China s non transparent trade competitiveness.

Criminal proceedings may then be downsized to a confession of a single massacre, as subsequent trials are shelved to open the way for punishment unlike, say, the Milosevic trial, which is now dragging into its fourth year. But rapid punishment most likely execution threatens to bury the full record of decades of tyranny under the apparently overriding purpose of fighting the insurgency by other means.

Given that such a move would imply that China s claim to the islands may have some legitimacy, Abe s possible concession on this point is no trivial matter it could even mean that he will agree with China to restore the status quo ante. In that case, one hopes that Xi will follow Deng Xiaoping s counsel and allow the issue to be shelved for some time so that the wiser next generation can find a solution acceptable to all.