External factors, such as timing, budget constraints, or lack of board approval, might have been working against you.

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Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has defended the timing of the budget cuts due to be announced this year.

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The timing of the green budget threw the question of the limits to growth into sharp relief.

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Of course due to the budget and timing there were cuts and revisions made to the script, some more painful than others, but overall the true spirit and essence of the story remained.

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The fall in the underlying rate is because the timing of last month's Budget meant duty rises were too late to have an effect.

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European governments large and small are imposing austerity measures (pay and pension cuts, cuts in government spending, tax increases, etc.) to tackle record budget deficits, the timing questionable when their economic recoveries are so fragile.

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China, which is the largest PC market with more than a 21% worldwide share, is experiencing slower than expected growth which is partly due to the timing of the Chinese New Year and government budget cuts.

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Because of the timing of the expenditure, most of the money will increase the budget deficit for the current fiscal year.

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The BBC's Political Editor Nick Robinson said Mr Cable's argument was not new but No 10 seemed to have been caught by surprise by the timing of the article, which comes less than two weeks before the Budget and after the economy shrank in the last few months of 2012.

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