The "absent-minded professor" is easily misunderstood: he's really present-minded, but his present is out there in the future, a week or the next lecture away.
Craig Levein will find out his future a week on Tuesday, when the Scotland coach meets the Scottish Football Association board on his return from holiday.
Start an experiment where you select one piece of your optimal future a week and find a way to create a highly basic version of it.
Now, with the national Republicans about to descend on New York City for the Republican National Convention, Mr. Pataki, with an eye to his political future, has a week to convince them that he can really be one of them, too.
I'm a member of one loyalty program that insists on giving me coupons at the end of my purchase receipt that I'm supposed to save and bring in during the next valid period of use, which is always sometime in the future, like a week out or more.
That means these devices will turn on almost immediately, feature wireless LTE connectivity and — maybe most importantly — offer the kind of battery life that'll let you get through a day or two (and, in the future, maybe a week) of work without having to recharge.
"I think I can say with confidence that we will be wrapping up this process in the very, very near future". After a week of intense meetings in the Swiss city, several sticking points, including differences over agricultural subsidies and import restrictions, were resolved.
Its bridgehead is Eurex US, a Chicago-based subsidiary which, despite much lobbying from the big Chicago exchanges, had finally won approval from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), America's main regulator of futures exchanges, a week earlier.
Despite evidence to the contrary, I am optimistic that at some point in the relatively near future an entire week will pass in which somebody in my household isn't being sick.
Alstom is to make a decision about where its future lies in a week.
A few courses last a full semester, like motion design and interactive environments (which includes designing for the iPad or Android), but others are shorter — one on leading for the future lasts only a week.
