Ian Foddering, UK and Ireland chief technology officer for infrastructure specialist Cisco Systems, agrees: "Two years on from the 2012 London Olympics, user expectations have increased in terms of their experience at such events.
When the new licence fee settlement is made, there needs to be a mechanism that if there is a dramatic change in economic circumstances, licence fee rises that are agreed five years earlier reflect that".
After five years I had to laugh and admit that I mostly agreed: Five years in, you really do hit your stride and find yourself producing that perfect instructional alchemy of semi-mastery of subject matter married to a polished delivery system with the appropriate sprinkling of student discipline.
Whitlam wanted him to remain a further two years, but Hasluck declined, citing his wife's refusal to remain at Yarralumla longer than the originally agreed five years.
In the end, as Donald Nicol commented, the long conflict had been meaningless, with terms that "could have been agreed five years before and saved the Empire so much bitterness, hatred and destruction".
Initially ignored, a target on sanitation was agreed two years after the others were set when it became clear that efforts to improve access to clean drinking water would not succeed without commensurate efforts to improve access to sanitation.
The Zoning Commission did so because Monument Realty had agreed two years earlier to pay into a city-run affordable housing construction fund and spend $2 million to build three townhouses in a low-income area — satisfying the "residential linkage" requirement.
They themselves, he said, had refused the Anglo-Rhodesian accord agreed four years previously, which he said had offered Rhodesian blacks "preferential franchise facilities", and they themselves had chosen to use "unconstitutional means and terrorism in order to overthrow the legal government of our country".
Sean Ross, editor of Airplay Monitor, another trade publication, agrees, "In five years, if somebody comes along to obsolete Opie and Anthony, they'll probably be outrageous as well".
Both sides had agreed upon five years as part of Mr. Skowron's guilty plea.
