On September 30th, his self-imposed deadline for finally announcing his Cabinet after four months in office, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari simply said that he would run the oil ministry himself.
Then, as he walked away, he'd holler, 'Suckerrrr.'" Just before the deadline, Obama finally agreed to sit down and fill out the forms — but he couldn't remember the password that he had chosen four years ago.
Bharti Airtel, Indias leading cell phone operator and South African telecom MTN have agreed to extend the deadline for finally wrapping up their possible merger.
The laborious undertaking missed its first deadline to finally arrive, late, on March 30.
Similarly, today there is a tremendous amount of conversation about how this latest national embarrassment over debt ceilings and budget deadlines will finally force Congress to grow up and govern with some modicum of orderliness and common sense.
Before Friday's nonwaiver trading deadline, he was finally moved.
He filled in with spare parts until the day before the trading deadline, when he finally acquired the best available outfielder, Bobby Abreu, in a trade.
After that nightmarish on-again, off-again trade deadline saga was finally resolved with Dwight signing a waiver to stay in Orlando through 2013, it was going to be all smooth sailing for the Magic... right?
Yet after years of talks -- and several missed deadlines -- diplomats finally found enough common ground to conclude the historic accord, which contains several critical compromises for each side.
In Orlando, with the N.B.A. trade deadline looming, the Magic finally part ways with the latest basketball star to insist on a new team: Dwight Howard, who like Chris Paul ends up in Los Angeles, but not with the Clippers.
