Sometimes, I assign something to a writer, and she responds, "What's my deadline?" (Some people ask for deadlines in order to keep themselves on track!).
When they piled on task after task, I would email back with a proposal of how to get it all done, asking for deadlines, checking I had the priorities right – but I'd get no response.
Sunnis will ask for the deadline to be extended.
The supermarket chain has until 2 February to make a bid or walk away, although it can ask for the deadline to be extended.
We learn that he wrote the sections of his autobiography dealing with the two terms of his presidency in a startling three months, rather than ask for a deadline extension (which explains why those sections feel so perfunctory and rushed).
I decided not to charge interest (which she offered to pay) or to ask for a repayment deadline.
Traian Băsescu, the president, agreed with the government's position, but insisted that the country should ask for a new deadline either in September or December this year.
Asked if Strauss-Kahn could hypothetically ask for the July deadline for candidates to be set aside and stand in the primaries, a party spokesman said: "It's complicated".
Under UK takeover rules, AB InBev was given 28 days to make a firm offer or walk away unless SABMiller asked for the deadline to be extended.
The group co-chairs, Timothy Hodges of Canada and Fernando Casas of Colombia asked for a deadline extension, to today, and this morning asked for another 2 days.
But it is still too early to say what Blackstone will decide to do come the mid-May deadline to ask for its money back, a person familiar with Blackstone's thinking said.
