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Give me a long deadline ("Let's say... a month from today?") and I'm coasting.
Sometimes she is given a project with a long deadline, so can fit her hours in whenever she has time.
That long deadline for a renegotiation followed by a referendum is the position that will be repeated when the Queen is conveyed to Westminster this week to read out the government's programme.
He said any Security Council resolution would have to set a deadline for compliance by Mr. Hussein, "and not a long deadline, but a deadline that requires him to say he will act".
Even when there was a long deadline, much of this action was compressed into the last moments, because a student who had been offered a position at, say, his third choice hospital, would be inclined to wait as long as possible before accepting, in the hope of eventually being offered a preferable position.
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She began writing children's books when she had her first and only child, Josh, who's now in his early twenties, and realised that the long deadlines of book writing suited her better than the tight ones of journalism.
This pattern was expressed to a greater degree by the old group at the long deadlines, when the task was easiest.
In experiments comparing the effects of short and long deadlines on job offers, negotiation experts Harris Sondak and Max Bazerman found that "exploding offers lower the quality of matching outcomes".
It also helps in cheating, excuses, etc. Make sure you have long deadlines before you go for the 11th hour paper method!
Last month the museum abruptly cancelled publication of the contributions, blaming four Greek academics for failing to meet a year-long deadline to submit their papers.
But after winning a month-long deadline extension from the oversight panel, Mr. Davy -- working with child welfare officials virtually around the clock -- cobbled together a document four times its original size and layered with detail about where the system wanted to go, how it would get there and its cost.
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