Premise: At the majority of project sites, for example, procurement of items costing less than $25,000 required between one and five signatures; each approval beyond the first one added to the time required for the procurement and created inefficiency, revenue loss, and a potential danger to the staff and public when safety corrections were delayed.

Hypothesis: Accumulating approvals added to the time involved in running through the logistics of the process.
Relation: entailment