Cecilia was standing over a propane stove finishing preparation of a meal.
But the last-minute dash to finish preparations has been at a pace that might startle Usain Bolt; the metro extension opened just this Monday.
When he first arrived in Sochi, ten days before the opening ceremony, Friedman found a harried atmosphere, as organizers and officials rushed to finish preparations.
Wayne Hale, the space shuttle program manager, said NASA engineers and technicians were facing a "somewhat aggressive schedule" in trying to finish preparations to launch the shuttle Discovery during the May 10 to May 23 target window.
Sometime in the next few months, physicists at CERN will finish preparations for the most ambitious particle-physics experiment ever, which will be conducted in an apparatus modestly referred to as the Large Hadron Collider, or L.H.C.
Wayne Hale, the space shuttle program manager, said engineers and technicians faced a "somewhat aggressive schedule" in trying to finish preparations to launch the shuttle Discovery during the May 10 to May 23 target window.
The Commonwealth Games, a quadrennial athletic competition among nations of the former British Empire, open in New Delhi on Oct. 3, and organizers are in a race to finish preparations before the opening ceremony.
"Everything is 100 percent ready," Mr. Kalmadi promised on a tour of Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, above the buzz of electric saws and the crackle of a welding torch as workers rushed to finish preparations at the arena.
"You probably have to ask him," Erik Spoelstra, who has been the Heat's coach since 2008 and has worked for Riley for 17 years, said after the Heat finished preparations Sunday for Game 2 of their playoff series with the Knicks on Monday night.
