To reassign lawyers in those cases would be too expensive and could needlessly delay them, other officials at the agency said.

Prosecutors had argued that a government team could adequately review the seized materials, and that the appointment of a special master would needlessly delay prosecution.

Republicans said today that voting on every deposition request would needlessly delay the investigation.

Others needlessly delayed their departures by minutes while sick patients waited for help, they said, and some crews falsified logs to cover their tracks.

But she noted that she complained in a letter to Judge Johnson in August that he was needlessly delaying the case.

As I said, we had no intention of delaying you gentlemen needlessly.

Some people involved said that effort was doomed from the start, and that it needlessly delayed the safety board's effort to reach a conclusion.

That timetable would further needlessly delay the test ban treaty and could even risk unraveling it as other countries lose patience with the Senate's stalling.

Mr. Collins also inserted language giving the Legislature oversight over each school project, which the Abbott districts feared would needlessly delay the projects.

Other times, reported a few families, Family Housing is less helpful and does not accept applications in advance or needlessly delays the assignment of quarters.