Glencore said Tuesday that the so-called long stop date by which the merger, which still needs Chinese regulatory approval, has to be completed has been extended to April 16 from March 15.
Long before a date had been set, campaigning had started, with hot-tempered allegations of trickery flying freely.
In other words, by the time the computer has worked out how the fire will spread, the forecast is already long out of date.
Since graduating, Ms Allen has managed to secure one year-long contract to date, but that ended in June and she has had to take a job outside the classroom.
Iraq has long had a date for when sanctions can start to be lifted: when it has handed over all its weapons of mass destruction and a monitoring system is in place to prevent them being rebuilt.
The long-awaited release date is welcome news to fans of the original game.
Some are worried that knowing the date a long time in advance will lead to longer election campaigns, a lack of flexibility and the possibility of a "lame duck" government limping on longer than it should.
This meant that our knowledge and experience had a long "sell by" date.
But Moffett and NZRFU opposite number Chris Moller sat down for a long negotiation over the match date, before eventually settling on Guy Fawkes Night - a good omen for an explosive match.
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"It has been a long and tough season to date for everyone connected with this football club, but now I am confident that I have got the man to take us forward, " Mandaric said.
"She told me as long as I don't date the dollies it was okay, " recalls Desmond.
Youth-soccer programs didn't explode until long after my sell-by date as a youth athlete.
They state that federal educational policymakers have focused to date (far too long, long enough) on a two-component educational model.
There's always a buzz in Cleveland for the first home game, a date the locals have long treated like a national holiday.
Two years ago, the chief executive of Comverse Technology fled the United States for Israel and then for Namibia, escaping charges that he participated in a scheme to back-date options at the Long Island, N.
This is one of the biggest challenges facing the field, and a big part of why, to date, no one in long-term cryonic suspension has been successfully revived.
Is every date going to yield a long-term love affair?
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As for the other issue likely to be discussed, Federal Reserve currently uses a system in which members use a calendar-date approach to signal how long they anticipate keeping interest rates low.
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Regarding the Bank of England, the Item Club said the 2% inflation target had become "a risk to the credibility" of the Bank, and that the target was "long-past its sell-by date".
To date, there have been no long-term studies on the effects of cell phone usage among children.
While there is still a long way to go, the progress to date is far beyond what most observers thought possible a year ago.
For those stocks in the top ten that I am currently long, I have included the price and date when those longs were established, as well as the current stop levels I recommend.
After years of waiting and hundreds of Engadget posts, the much-anticipated but seemingly just-out-of-reach high definition optical disc technology known as Blu-ray has finally, at long last, been given an official launch date by Sony.
The prosecutor has long since gotten my ticket and set a court date for the accused.
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Its been a long road with only a very modest return to date.
There has been little relief for RIMM shares as the stock continued its long decline by sliding another 26% year to date.
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Ms. Tharp, now 70 and a grandmother, has long been known for her iconoclastic works, which date back to 1965 and range from stark cerebral dances to grander ballet spectacles.
To bring the book up to date, there is an epilogue on Long-Term Capital Management, a hedge fund peopled by Wall Street wizards and Nobel prize-winning economists, which collapsed ignominiously last year.
Of course, CBS now does full episode streaming on mobile iOS devices, so we'll see if this a sign of more changes on the way, although with no release date we don't know how long we'll have to wait.
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