But when banking chiefs met Mr King on March 20th, they asked him to do more.
Uganda had promised to withdraw its last 1, 000 troops from Congo by March 20th.
In a speech on March 20th, Mr Bernanke analysed reasons why yields might be so thin.
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The 2nd rescue package is merely a way of saving Greece from a default on March 20th.
Parliament is expected to convene on March 17th, and a prime minister should be nominated by March 20th.
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Yesterday, GLD closed below the March 20th low, which is another sell signal.
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Short-term interest rates have also risen since March 20th, when the Fed made the third of its five cuts.
On March 20th new figures showed that China's trade surplus with America had grown 36% in the year to January.
On March 20th Bennett LeBow's Liggett Group broke ranks with Big Tobacco and reached a settlement with the industry's tormentors.
On March 20th, Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, voiced scepticism over the link between the JOBS act and job creation.
On March 20th, Malaysia's army was deployed to kill thousands of pigs in an effort to contain outbreaks of Japanese encephalitis.
The Cassa's Croatian venture is already breaking even, and received an unusual seal of approval on March 20th, when the World Bank's International Finance Corporation took a 14% stake.
On March 20th his latest three-day concert was scheduled to get under way at the Taj Mahal in India, from where it will be beamed by satellite around the world.
So although not yet daring to call for the postponement of the election that Mr Blair has not yet announced, on March 20th Mr Hague took a carefully disinfected step in that direction.
Yet when Mr Checchi was obliged to beam down from the virtual world to the real one to attend a convention of the state's Democratic Party in Los Angeles on March 20th-22nd, he put on a dismal performance.
The bond markets expect Mr Greenspan to read recent inflation data, unexpectedly high, as a statistical blip, and to cut interest rates by at least a quarter-point, perhaps even before the next scheduled Fed meeting on March 20th.
British carmakers come late to the market but, in a positive sign of things to come, Nissan announced on March 20th a partnership with One North East, a regional-development agency, that may lead to the production of electric cars at Nissan's Sunderland plant.
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When U.S. President Barack Obama arrives in Israel on March 20th for an official state visit to the richly historic country, his itinerary will include a visit to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, a stop at the Israel Museum to see the Dead Sea Scrolls, and a close-up look at a missile defense battery.
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To make matters worse, when America's secretary of state, Colin Powell, at last let it be known that his government now wanted nothing more than overflight rights, to which the Turkish parliament agreed on March 20th, the government denied the Americans use of Turkish airspace, saying it wanted them to agree to the deployment of thousands of Turkish troops in northern Iraq.
On March 19th and 20th, NCMEC is sponsoring a conference called Safe to Compete: Protecting Child Athletes from Sexual Abuse, where it will convene more than 50 youth-serving organizations, including the YMCA, Special Olympics, USA Swimming, USA Gymnastics, and Big Brothers Big Sisters of America to talk about the issue of preventing abuse of children in sports programs.
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