This is understandable but something of a shame, because this is when the playoff races become more heated, the storylines gets stranger, and the March 15 trade deadline threatens to alter pro basketball's entire landscape.
Some foreign suppliers of components for the 787, the next-generation jet which Boeing is counting on for much of its growth, have not been able to meet deadlines, threatening the company's timetable for delivering the finished article.
Yes, January 1 is approaching, and college application deadlines threaten to ruin the holidays for just about every family with a high school senior at home.
But while the president has sounded more willing to abandon the United Nations process, some in the administration have argued that unless the president sets a deadline and threatens to act alone, the issue would be debated endlessly in the United Nations.
Roberto Martínez has said Everton's refusal to sell John Stones to Chelsea demonstrated the richest clubs cannot simply "click your fingers and get anything you want" and claimed the late transfer deadline could threaten the security of players who want to move.
The head of Russia's Black Sea Fleet Aleksander Vitko set the deadline and threatened an attack "across Crimea".
In a new video, the group set a fast-approaching deadline of June 13, threatening to kill another hostage if their demands aren't met.
New York has lost seats in each recent reapportionment, and in 1980 and 1990, redistricting was a bitter, drawn-out bloodletting, resolved only after the courts had imposed deadlines and threatened to take over the process.
When the Senate slows down on big legislation that has a deadline, Mr. Reid often threatens to keep lawmakers on weekends, but rarely does the need reach that point.
Three years ago, when the union and the authority were approaching the last contract deadline, the union threatened to strike and Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani warned of contempt citations and huge fines if the transit workers walked out.
