It originally set a five-year timetable, later expanded to seven years, that was intended to build confidence between the two sides gradually so the final, difficult decisions would be easier to make.
Both GTR and the company that operates Northern's franchise, Arriva Rail North, claim to be employing more than enough drivers to run the expanded services the May timetable was due to provide.
In exchange, Iraq is being offered what amounts to a timetable for an expanded and improved version of the oil-for-food agreement (the deal under which Iraq sells a set amount of oil to pay for humanitarian relief and war reparations).
"It is considered more humane" and "will eventually" be expanded to all such courts, he said without providing a timetable.
Today, Mr. Powell expanded on that comment, saying the reason he found the timetable unrealistic was that it could not be met by the existing Iraqi Governing Council.
Obama, of course, has proposed bolder plans — among them universal access to health care for all citizens and an expanded vision of a green economy with a more aggressive timetable (proposals that may have rough sledding during a historic recession).
The program is reportedly only being tested in California and Chicago locations, and there is no timetable from Kohl's management when it might be expanded to the other more than 1,000 stores.
The central player is the Big Ten, which, as The Chicago Tribune reported over the weekend, has moved up its timetable for expanding.
In an interview while visiting New York in November, Mr. Saville said that while the American market was attractive, there was no timetable for expanding there.
Ms. Tharp's goal was to move into the newly renovated quarters in March or April with a three-year timetable to expand her company, Twyla Tharp Dance, from six dancers into what she envisioned as the Brooklyn Ballet.
