But for some Chelsea players, Saturday's season finale isn't even the end of this historically epic campaign.
Even the end-2014 deadline for withdrawing Western combat troops was tight, but at least it was based on a phased transition and a staged ISAF drawdown that everyone understood and was working towards.
According to those minutes, several FOMC members thought the new round of asset purchases and balance sheet expansion might be ended by the end or even before the end of 2013 while interest rates would presumably remain on the floor much longer.
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If the company is able to achieve even the low end of the new guided range, it would represent sales growth of nearly 19% over this quarter a year ago.
Analysts swiftly downgraded the sector and even at the end of last month, downgrades outnumbered upgrades.
John Dornan, the council's cabinet member for environment, said despite the non-payment of fines he hoped the scheme would break even by the end of the year.
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The 9-employee firm is on track to break even by the end of the summer, said Hirsch.
Some even project a rabid antipathy for brands, or even suggest the end of Brands.
At present simply processing data counts as copying, even though the end result may not infringe copyright.
Greenfield thinks even the high end of the IPO range could yield upwards of 50% returns to investors within 12 months.
Even at the end of 2010, when the market was rising sharply and was technically strong, investors were still moving out of stocks.
But even near the end, when she'd lost command of language, she'd mouth the words to "Dayenu" with a smile on her face.
But even by the end of the decade its debt as a ratio of GDP will be 120% - the same as Italy's now.
Even at the end of the Truman administration, domestic spending was 1.6 percentage points lower than it had been when FDR took office two decades earlier.
But even toward the end of his tenure at Lederle, big pharmaceutical companies were starting to pare back on antibiotics, opting for more lucrative cancer and heart drugs.
Its chiefs said then their main objective was reducing organised crime, not making a profit and they hoped to break even by the end of their third year of operation.
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