Mr. Arthur said the work of the task force, if successful, would replace an O.E.C.D. timetable, contained in a memorandum delivered to the tax havens in November, which gave them five years to complete compliance with its demands.
The independence timetable, contained in United Nations Security Council Resolution 435, required South Africa to reduce its 50,000 troops in Namibia to 12,000, abolish discriminatory legislation and set in motion the return of thousands of Namibian exiles by this weekend, which is six weeks after the process was set in motion.
For that purpose, a timetable usually contains time supplements in several process times and buffer times between pairs of consecutive trains.
Make a timetable that contains which day the training is, what is the objective, what equipment you need, how objective is going to be executed and how will you assess your fellows after the session.
A triumph of the Victorian drive toward classification, timetables contain large quantities of information in a condensed, orderly, and sensible form, one seemingly at odds with the disorderly content of the sensation novel.
Mr. Cordovez said at a news conference that the negotiators would go directly to the remaining unsolved question, a document containing a timetable for the withdrawal of over 100,000 Soviet troops who have been in Afghanistan since December 1979, when Mr. Karmal came to power.
But that analysis never contained a timetable for starting a bid, he said, adding, "We never held any merger discussions with S.A.B".
The bill originally contained a timetable that, while far gentler than that in the Kyoto pact, was strongly opposed by industries wedded to coal and oil, which emit carbon dioxide when burned.
In the face of president Bush's unmoving threat to veto any bill that contained a timetable, the Democratic leadership looked certain last night to drop one of the central pledges that they had made in last November's midterm elections.
