There was no rush to launch on a certain date, and there was no headlong attempt to minimize problems.

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The Administration and Congress should carry Powell's idea to its all-too-logical and necessary conclusion: On a date certain--call it Liberation Day--a year or so from now, all barriers to entry into any facet of communications would be eliminated.

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"It wasn't so much about planning to initiate operations on a 'date certain' as it was about determining if the regime would heed the warnings of the international community and comply" with the U.N. resolution, the official said.

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"It wasn't so much about planning to initiate operations on a 'date certain, ' as it was about determining if the regime would heed the warnings of the international community and comply" with a U.N. resolution, the official said.

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President Bush put his chips on a date-certain vote, despite widespread doubt and opposition inside Iraq, in the region, in Europe, in the United Nations and in the United States.

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Instructions could be improved, he said, by focusing on whether food was still safe to eat by a certain date.

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However a signal from the military at the right time that Taliban safe havens, recruitment drives, fundraising and other activities will come to an end by a certain date will put enormous pressure on the Taliban.

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Her supplemental spending bill meant to provide resources needed to fund ongoing military operations would compel the removal of U.S. combat forces from Iraq by a date certain, irrespective of conditions on the ground.

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