In the beginning, leaders were managers, who made decisions and told others what to do, how to do it, and when to do it.
We evaluate where we have to go, what else we need to do and when we have to do it.
Wise advice emerged from each one: You will know what to do when the time comes to do it.
Because, for the first time, we have the IMF saying, not just that the government might have to rethink, but when it might have to do it.
If you don't want to rush, and you don't want to do this, then you should have done it when she told you to do it!
And as it is, the federal government has a lot to do when it comes to criminal prosecutions.
Most observers would prefer the ECB's top policymakers to say a lot less and, when they do speak, to do it in a co-ordinated way, much like the Fed, where Mr Greenspan is the prime spokesman.
One trick to help you know when to delegate versus do it yourself is to compare it to your hourly worth.
"If they're going to do it, it makes sense to do it when NBC is dominating television for 17 days, " he said, and can heavily promote the "Tonight" switch.
What I do recall is that I dealt with it when I had time to do it.
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So addicted has the economy become to debt, that this will make it harder for the Fed to raise interest rates when it needs to do so.
Mainly, they require relentless attention to detail: good products, prompt service, well-trained staff with the power to do a little extra when they judge it right to do so.
If a bridge or airport or some other infrastructure is going to be built, and only if it makes sense to build it in the first place, it is far better to do it when unemployment is 10% than when it is 1%.
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This month Halla Heavy Engineering and Industries, the most troubled affiliate of the Halla Group, failed to start honouring debts and interest payments, as it had agreed to do when it received bankruptcy protection in December 1997.
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According to the UPI news agency, senior Nasa officials only realised the flaw in MPL's thrusters a few days before the landing was to take place on 3 December - when it was too late to do anything about it.
Courage is having the strength of conviction to do the right thing when it would just be easier to do things right.
But a win this year, and especially two, puts him ahead of the pace to do it when, at times, it seemed out of the question.
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When Schreiner decided to do it, he called Mondoux and the two spoke on the phone for almost four hours.
She wants to know why we didn't sign up with the green supplier a couple of years ago, when she wanted to do it.
We never know when exactly it's going to get very bright and this time it was kind enough to do just that when we had a very large number of telescopes trained on it.
But perhaps it will provoke some thought, as it seemed to do when I first proposed it.
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It tends to act only when it cannot decently do otherwise, leaving matters to lapse again as soon as the original uproar has subsided.
Families feel helpless, they feel like failures, they think, 'How can we fix it when that person is choosing to do it'?
We can easily conjure up plausible theories as to what we will do when it comes to our next tack or eventually reversing course.
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"My trip is to explain as clearly as I can that our nation is generous and compassionate -- that when we see poverty, we care, that when we see illiteracy, we want to do something about it, that when we find there to be a deficiency in health care, we'll help to the extent we can, " he said.
But criticizing baby boomers is not necessarily a politically wise thing to do, especially when it comes to their voting behavior.
Churches, trade unions, employers and indeed states belong to federations so that they may do more things together when it is in their interest to do so.
Is Japan willing to consider offsetting the codevelopment arrangement on the FS-X with a substantial off-the-shelf defense purchase to demonstrate Japanese willingness to buy American when it is sensible to do so?
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