Mr. DIAMOND: I don't favor a rigid deadline, and I certainly don't favor the one year and then completely out deadline that Congressman Murtha, a man who I do have tremendous respect for, has proposed for Iraq.
So, just once and for all, and for the record, I didn't miss the deadline.
But let's assume it gets closed sometime fairly soon after, if he doesn't make the deadline.
"If you don't set a deadline in this town, nothing happens, " he said.
Senior administration officials said the only staffers who didn't meet the deadline were those who were traveling or who had extenuating circumstances.
The consortium hasn't set a deadline for the sale of shares but is selling when the price rises above a minimum it has fixed, Mr. Acharya said without disclosing that level.
But the about five million recipients who have yet to make the switch won't see their checks cut off if they don't meet the deadline, says Walt Henderson, a spokesman for the Treasury Department.
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Cuomo said late Monday that he hasn't given a deadline for the state health and environmental conservation commissioners he appointed to advise him on a decision on whether to drill for gas using hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which injects a mix of water and chemicals thousands of feet underground to crack open shale and release natural gas.
We don't have a specific deadline for what the next phase in this is, though.
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The talks have entered a slow phase, in part because policy makers don't face an immediate deadline.
Lehman doesn't face any specific deadline for unwinding assets, so it could opt to sit on the shares.
Why didn't he meet the deadline for submitting his own budget then?
In New Jersey, for instance, polling places couldn't meet a 2008 deadline to add a paper trail to their voting machines, so the deadline was extended until 2009--after the election.
Domestic partners aren't eligible for the spousal exemption and will end up with coverage gaps and higher premiums for life if they don't enroll by the deadline, which is three months after one turns 65.
The U.S. rejected these accusations and didn't comply with the Monday deadline demanded by Mr. Karzai for the pullout.
The government website promoting the shift ( godirect.org) says the department may issue prepaid debit cards to people who don't sign up by the deadline.
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Petkus said the deadline wasn't absolute, and that negotiations will continue.
The 2 August deadline isn't an automatic trigger for disaster.
The significance of the Wednesday deadline wasn't immediately clear.
The county stopped recounting its votes altogether last Wednesday after deciding they couldn't possibly finish before the Sunday deadline.
The Jagr trade was the biggest one Tuesday, but it won't be the last before the deadline clock ticks down.
Those that don't meet the Feb. 17 deadline must get approval from the Federal Communications Commission to switch on a later date.
"If they can't implement the procedures by the deadline, then the airline should be shut down until they can do it, " he said.
Mr. Reis said AstroTurf hasn't offered to extend the payment deadline.
Year 2000 experts say the medical community, far behind others who depend on computers, needs to speed things up, because this is one deadline that can't be moved.
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