Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said after talks in Paris and Brussels that he expected euro zone finance ministers to acknowledge next Monday progress towards a cash-for-reform deal, opening the way to easing Athens' liquidity crisis.
A "daunting" challenge, maybe, but Lally acknowledges next year's Games are not the be-all and end-all.
In that context Martin acknowledges that next Friday's match against Leicester, the Championship leaders, is the more important fixture.
Yet 20 months along, it hasn't worked out that way, and Mr. Arifai, frustrated, acknowledges that Next Door is struggling.
We are one of the least complacent boards around, he insists (isn't that a teensy bit complacent?) And Swannell acknowledges that Next have been performing well -- they've been on the right track for 10, 20 years.
Then he refuses to acknowledge that next season will even exist.
In one study I conducted with colleagues, for example, participants who had just struggled to use a digital video player with lots of features acknowledged that next time they'd prefer a simpler player.
Gramm acknowledges that the next two years are likely to be tough.
The Fiesta and Focus, Mr Mulally promised, will be coming off the lines within two years.GM's global design chief, Ed Welburn, acknowledges that its next generation of small cars will be designed in places like South Korea and Europe where they "really know how to do small cars".
On Monday, the officials missed a rather obvious travel on Russell Westbrook, something which the NBA acknowledged the next day.
He acknowledged the next five days would be weird, but Girardi cited Jeter's on-field speech after Sunday's game as a rallying cry for the team.
