We are half-way through the second dress rehearsal before Saturday's grand final and things in Athens are hotting up - and it's not just the temperature outside.
Then, at least voters can make their final choices on things that matter to them now.
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And from the time you first notice the problem to the time the final denouement occurs, things move fairly quickly.
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Only in the final three weeks did things heat up, when Tom Ammiano, president of the board of supervisors, as San Francisco's city council is called, launched a campaign to persuade voters to write his name on their ballot sheets, since it was too late for him to enter as an official candidate.
Tony Duggan wrapped things up in the final minute by running in for his second of the game which Van Dijk converted.
May, taking over the place-kicking duties as well as Wilkinson's position, inched Toulon back ahead but Blair replied for Blues to leave things deadlocked entering the final quarter.
As the two sides are evenly matched, they won't be looking to operate outside their normal parameters too much, so they are unlikely to try new things in a Grand Final.
Consequently, the desire for order motivated the establishment of ethical standards to encourage acceptable personal behavior, contracts to encourage legal behavior, and courts to sort things out when a final authority is required.
As things stood going into the final day, Brewerton was ranked in fifth position, but England's Rebecca Hudson and Swedish pair Annika Sorenstam and Linda Wessberg were still in the hunt.
Confusion, tension and disagreement coloured the final statement to an unusual degree, and things started to get messier once the meeting was over.
There are a lot of things to think about - a final in London and the fact that no London team has won the Champions League.
One of the things that was missing was a final after action report from the Department, pretty much trying to lay out what had gone wrong and what were the remedies going to be to fix it.
They don't care to learn things that won't be on the final exam.
Some would also argue that, without the Bush tax cuts, things might have been decidedly worse during the final decade of the last century.
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Flood suffered the lower leg injury in the Heineken Cup semi-final win over Blues in early May, but if things go to plan in training, he could be on the bench to face Newport Gwent Dragons on Saturday.
Perhaps anticipating the election, a draft final rule was just circulated that works fairly well, all things considered.
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If it comes down to two umpires who are equally qualified, "maybe the year before one of them had done a big match on the final weekend and the other didn't, and all things being equal, we'll give it to the other, " says Kaufman.
As God's final revelation to man, it belongs not to earthly, created things but to an eternal realm.
He pulled together things that had been done previously, but added that final twist to it that they had been missing.
Things came to a head with a mistake on the final play of the Monday night game that cost the Green Bay Packers a victory against the Seattle Seahawks.
Whatever the final outcome of this case, Microsoft has always felt that stringing things out was in its best interests, allowing the firm to push ahead with its business strategy untrammelled for as long as possible: the freedom to innovate, as it would say, the freedom to intimidate, retort its critics.
Many crazy things happen at the end of BioShock Infinite, but the final mind-warping sequence is kicked off by a surprise trip to Rapture, the underwater city from the original game.
But final approval for the 787 also was contingent on Boeing, among other things, designing an automatic system able to disconnect the batteries from the plane's electrical grid in case of unexpected problems.
In other words, even though the final confrontation with Woodbury is just one week away, and even though things have never looked more bleak and terrifying for our little band of survivors, there is still hope and resilience.
They will be hoping it is not a sign of things to come on a ground which will stage the Champions League final this season.
But then things rose and rose and we had a great crescendo on the final day with some cracking races and, of course, the victory of Best Mate in the Gold Cup.
Craig Pickering - fifth in the final but bagging 6.57 in Glasgow - will probably be in Turin but things seem to be stirring inside his head.
But a DECC source told the BBC's Chris Mason that Mr Hayes "does not make final decisions on this" and that he had "totally over-egged" things when he suggested reviews will be commissioned into the noise that turbines create and their relationship with the landscape.
Jacques puts things into perspective, saying he's seldom seen such a competitive 4x400m relay final.
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