However,only thirty-five states approved the amendment by the deadline so it never went into effect.

VOA: special.2009.10.18

But Congress has already missed the deadline for such reforms to take effect in the next election, though it may be extended.

ECONOMIST: Brazilian politics

And that, as many officials acknowledge privately, means that the original Doha deadline of finishing the round by January 2005 is, in effect, defunct.

ECONOMIST: World trade

Adopt the 2009 or 2010 rules for 2011 (with perhaps the imposition of rookie scale contracts which both sides have agreed to in principle), set a hard deadline of August 1 to have a new collective bargaining agreement signed, and put it into effect as of March 1, 2012.

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