Paperwork had to be pushed, meetings had take place, appraisals had to be made.
The line had to be closed for eight hours and 100 trains had to be diverted.
Militaries had to be secretive about their weapons, law enforcement had to be secretive about they way they track criminals.
More than 4, 000 different ballot types had to be prepared, and 7, 000 poll workers had to be trained on an entirely new system.
When Wallace said the subject of an interview had to be kidding, he really meant the subject had to be kidding everyone watching.
The company was clearly in some tough decisions and my personal capital, life insurance policy and everything I could cash in had be exhausted.
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Until two or three years ago, all the ingredients had to be Mexican and they also had to be authentic, so, for example, we wouldn't use parsnip.
Meat and Livestock Commission Marketing Director Gwynne Howells said lost ground had to be regained and foreign consumers had to be convinced that UK-reared beef was safe.
According to Malcolm, the event had to be moved to a larger room at the hotel, and several people wanting to attend had to be turned away.
For a small business to jump to a server system, the peer-to-peer environment had to be so unproductive that the pain had to be worse than the conversion challenges.
Special adviser Brian McGinnis said staff had to be properly trained and there had to be proper monitoring of the effects of a particular residential placement on an individual's life.
"Curzon's Bill reintroduced the idea of compulsion, the idea that was originally in Lubbock's act and had be taken out because it was considered intolerable, " says Simon Thurley, chief executive of English Heritage.
Worse yet, anything beyond the 100 had to be outright deleted, and the Vita had to be restarted -- if you want to access anything beyond the 100, you need to delete something else.
It had to be a very serious crime, and there had to be evidence suggesting the suspect was a national of the other country or had come to the attention of its authorities, he said.
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Then another barbed wire fence had to be put around the first barbed wire fence, and then a third barbed wire fence had to be put around the second till the whole compound covered a half acre.
There were two brief delays in the countdown, one caused by a cabin-pressure sensor that had to be reset, the other by a private plane that wandered into Cape Canaveral airspace and had to be shooed out.
But the stipulation under the law is for the prior art to be sufficient to negate or invalidate the Apple patents in this case, it had to be sufficiently similar or, more importantly, it had to be interchangeable.
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Ms Bennett argued that more manufacturing and food production had to take place in the UK to cut the transport of goods around the world, while the railways had to be renationalised and the minimum wage had to be a "living wage".
At one point, when the room service arrived (after five hours, but this was hardly a time to complain), we realised the extent of the damage inside the hotel - the waiter apologised profusely, explaining that it had be hard to prepare the food as the gas had got into the kitchen.
That task grew more difficult in May, when news broke that federal prosecutors were looking into allegations that MCI, since 1994 and be-fore merging into WorldCom, had be-gun illegally disguising long-distance calls as local ones to avoid paying the Bells millions of dollars in access fees--and continues to do so.
And, unfortunately, throughout that process, whenever the possibility of a grand bargain seemed in the offing, a grand bargain that had to be balanced in nature -- because every bipartisan group that looked at this and every reasonable economist who looked at this agreed that a solution had to be balanced in nature.
It said that if you'd sat in our schools from the time you're five or six-years old and you had become an A-plus student, you'd completed the core curriculum, you were an exceptional student, and you also had to be drug and alcohol-free -- and the other provision, you had to be applying for citizenship.
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Stroll into the school lobby even a minute after the start of the day, and this would be recorded in the form of a late note. (To the annoyance of my parents, many of mine were time-stamped 8:02.) Down to the minute, we knew where we had to be, when we had to be there and what we had to do upon arrival.
Mr Finnie said the Scottish Executive had to be able to state very clearly which practices the Phillips report had criticised, then be clear and open about the steps which had been taken to deal with them.
So where's the business plan here if what's to be had can be taken for free?
First, I had to be let into the apartment by the Gujarati guy, and then I had to knock and be let into their room.
To be included, an individual had to be convicted of tax evasion, or had to accept responsibility for the charges levied against him (as former Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-Hee did in April when he was indicted on charges of tax evasion and breach of trust).
Even before the Internet, when information flows were tightly controlled, regulators had a hard time guiding companies on when truthful statements could be disclosed and when they had to be suppressed.
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But he said proper legal channels had to be followed, which meant they had to know Polanski's specific whereabouts before a country could be asked to act.
That certainly did not impress Bruce, although the Black Cats manager had to be told what had happened because of a long-standing superstition not to watch penalties.
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