"All this talk about building a casino here has made me realize we might very well have a deadline confronting us," Mr. Smith said.
Already a light sleeper, he was down to about four hours a night as a series of haunting tradeoffs — and a looming July 1 budget deadline — confronted him in the dark.
Anyone who has ever confronted a dissertation deadline with blank pages and a paralyzed mind will identify with "Nancy, Please," a darkly comic psychodrama about academic pressure and irrational paranoia.
Three key events will test the three-part plan of Shinzo Abe, the prime minister, to restore some vim to the economy.First, the Bank of Japan (BoJ) will confront a rough deadline for its pledge to banish deflation.
A1 Britain Buys Time in Ulster Britain temporarily suspended Northern Ireland's home-rule government, confronted by a deadline to either close down the province's 108-member assembly or call new elections.
Confronted by a deadline to either close down the province's 108-member Assembly or call new elections, John Reid, Britain's Northern Ireland secretary, told reporters at his official mansion here that he hoped to lift the suspension by the end of the weekend.
The administration also confronts a fiscal deadline on Oct. 1, when spending legislation is needed to keep government programs running.
As President Obama and congressional leaders confront a March 1 deadline to strike a deal that will reduce the federal budget deficit or otherwise accept automatic spending cuts, Washington now echoes with familiar talk that eliminating tax breaks and closing loopholes presents a simple way to raise revenue.
But confronted with a tight deadline and an overwhelming body of research (books, media, transcripts of speeches, personal recollections and the very official documents critical to the events of 11 November 1975) on which to base a narrative, I became overwhelmed by how little of the nuance, the drama, the subterfuge and the political context I had, indeed, been genuinely familiar with.
Finally, at the Sunday Times, he had to confront the reality of deadlines and a mass readership.
