You even spent half an hour drafting and re-drafting a short accompanying email.
"Mr. Premier, are you ready to see me?" Sitting side by side, Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton negotiated for more than an hour, drafting language like the lawyers they are.
It may look as simple as a pack of Nascar drivers strung together for a 200-mile-an-hour draft at Talladega, but this bridge is years away and faces challenges.
Mr. Crabtree and Ms. Sheldon had already spent hours drafting a message.
The day after his United States Open upset of Andy Roddick, John Isner spent a couple of hours drafting players for his N.F.L. fantasy football team.
"I am going to be smiling through this whole meeting no matter what happens," said Councilwoman Judy Kleinberg, whose committee had spent seven hours drafting the rules.
The S.E.C. produced 60 pages on a cost-benefit analysis of the rule and spent 21,000 staff hours drafting it over two years, Mary L. Schapiro, the agency's chairwoman, said in a recent letter to Congress.
But federal prosecutors didn't like this direction and they began threatening states which had spent thousands of staff and advocate hours drafting, debating, and passing access laws.
Age-related changes in performance across years were investigated in the 24-hour draft-legal cycling event held in Schötz, Switzerland, between 2000 and 2011 using multi-level regression analyses including age, repeated participation and environmental temperatures as co-variables.
The aims of the study were to investigate the participation trends, and the sex and age-related differences in performance in ultra-cycling in a 24-hour draft-legal ultra-endurance cycling event held in Schötz, Switzerland, between 2000 and 2011.
Over its eight hours, the draft drew an average of 5.3 million viewers.
