Everybody acknowledged that we have to get this done before the hard deadline of August 2nd to make sure that America does not default for the first time on its obligations.
Adopt the 2009 or 2010 rules for 2011 (with perhaps the imposition of rookie scale contracts which both sides have agreed to in principle), set a hard deadline of August 1 to have a new collective bargaining agreement signed, and put it into effect as of March 1, 2012.
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But without -- again, it's not a hard deadline, but Congress, the administration, all of us working together need to move this ball down the field this week to make sure that by next week we know that there will be an outcome that at the very least ensures that the United States does not default on its obligations.
The SEC advocates a hard 4pm deadline, after which trading would take place at the next day's price.
"That deadline is hard and fast, " Mr Carney said of next Tuesday's expiry date on the debt ceiling.
Well done everyone - keep up the hard work until the deadline.
In Los Angeles, we know hard work, we know how to meet the deadline and we know how to get the job done.
"Wealth-management products we issued used to be snapped out before the sales deadline, but now we find it hard to sell them all, " the manager said.
The March 20 deadline looms as the potential day of a Greek hard, disorderly default.
The Committee has given a deadline of 21 January for CalPERS to respond to ten hard-hitting questions aimed at better understanding the process employed by that fund's managers in making international debt and equity purchasing decisions (including the account histories of several questionable holdings).
So far, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who is famous for setting hard deadlines and demanding that his subordinates meet them, has set no deadline for completion of this process.
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If the Brussels negotiators have to ask advance permission from member states for every compromise, it is hard to see how they can hope to make substantial progress before the December deadline.
But this defeat, one day before the trade deadline, seemed likely to force the Knicks (32-19) to take a long, hard look at whether, as constructed, this unit has what it takes to beat scrappy, defense-oriented teams who've tasted playoff success in recent years.
The deadline for bidders for the ferries order passed last Thursday, with politicians and union officials in Glasgow lobbying hard on the Govan yard's behalf.
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