So in haste, without substantive time for debate and to understand the bill and implications, Congress passed into law discriminatory provisions that prohibit travel under the Visa Waiver Program VWPP) for select populations based on their ancestral heritage and/or national origin.
This will start the clock ticking on two years of negotiations, but the time for substantive talks could be far shorter.
"It's a quiet time for substantive news, but it doesn't mean on any given day that you're going to have quiet days," said the analyst, Robert Weissenstein, the chief investment officer of Credit Suisse's American private banking division.
And some senior scientists say the intern program doesn't allow enough time for substantive research that can generate publishable results.
Contrast that with the Trump tax bill, which, driven by threats from big GOP donors, was rushed from introduction to passage in just 51 days, leaving no time for substantive deliberation or negotiation — nor even a full understanding of how much debt it would create.
In October, the Washington Post's Karen Tumulty told The Huffington Post that Romney was "quite accessible" during the last election cycle and offered her plenty of access for substantive pieces that she wrote for Time.
By contrast, the type of request that San Francisco State would need to make to its accrediting agency, one for "substantive change," is approved 84percentt of the time.
By taking into account the four-year time elapsing between sweeps, national data present in two or more datasets was deemed sufficient for substantive comparisons of trends in victimisation concentration over time.
They have little choice, but to keep looking for ways to push that transformative culture deeper and deeper into the organization, and over time, that should provide a foundation for substantive change that translates into more concrete financial results.
But, for the Palestinians, a settlement freeze is an essential precondition for substantive negotiation.The two sides have agreed to discuss the definition of time-out at the Washington meeting.
