Don't leave any details hanging or deadlines unmet.
The formula had been set early: debt, here in the form of deadlines unmet; procrastination; and opium.
Once upon a time a company proposed a plan to clean up the environmental contamination in its concession, and, with the deadlines unmet, decided to ignore its initial agreement and say that its plan was inapplicable because Mother Nature had already regenerated the area better than it had proposed..
And some of those deadlines remain unmet to this day.
If a client is leaving because of a problem on your end, such as missed deadlines or unmet expectations, you won't stay in business long if you don't find a potential solution.
We just hit this milestone," when at the forefront of my mind disappointment, missed deadlines and unmet goals were blaring.
One was the passing of yet another unmet deadline: the May 13th target for reaching an Israeli-Palestinian "framework agreement" on borders, settlement, Jerusalem, refugees and water.
Most other details of the budget, which is supposed to be finalized by April 1, remain unresolved, leading most budget analysts to conclude that the deadline will be unmet for the 19th consecutive year.
As a writer, I've often joked that I can't die as long as I have an unmet deadline.
In theory these should be in place within two years, although such deadlines often pass unmet.
To the east, more than 1,000 trucks waited at a near-standstill on the Pakistani side of the pass on Tuesday, engines idling in an hours-long purgatory of dust and unmet deadlines.
