Happy ones work like a well-oiled machine, phones are answered, deadlines met and everyone goes home whistling to dinner shortly after five.

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It brought months of desultory talks over a Cyprus bailout to a head when it threatened to withdraw liquidity from Cypriot banks unless its deadlines were met.

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He or she can be in touch with your estate attorney and CPA to smooth the flow of information, make sure deadlines are met, make sure assets are titled properly and help avoid costly tax and investment errors.

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But above all you then need to shake it off, because there are still objectives to be achieved, deadlines to be met, and a job to be done.

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Ten months since President Barack Obama signed Dodd-Frank into law, regulators have missed all 26 deadlines supposed to be met by April.

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Councillors have been told that deadlines have not been met and the service was not of a standard the authority had expected.

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Deadlines need to be met, Tweets have to be sent, updates and meetings and discussions have brief time windows to hurry through before they expire on Outlook.

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