But if Palin had pencilled an imminent date in her diary, she's certainly rubbed it out now.
Unlike JPMorgan's recent settlement with WorldCom, which was concluded on the eve of trial, in the Enron settlements there are no imminent court dates forcing the banks' or the plaintiffs' hands.
The two have only been dating since late last year so the supposedly imminent engagement announcement added to rumours that Billie was 'set to wed' because she was pregnant.
Usually when a title and album artwork are announced it's part of a set plan and is usually accompanied by an imminent release date.
That long-ago photo, of a young man with hair, looking confidently into the distance, brings back some of the excitement of the imminent publication date and, for all anyone knew, outraged public condemnation.
Later, in a disorienting change of pace, several minutes are given over to Jodie alone in her apartment, preparing for an imminent dinner date – a rushed tidy, a flick through a cook book, a frantic decision about what to wear.
"It was a good trial, passionate, but in terms of consequences the imminent expiration date takes all the pathos out of the verdict," said prosecutor Henry John Woodcock after the sentence was delivered on Wednesday.
The owners, Delphi Basilicato and Jai Singh, who bought the theater eight years ago, dismissed rumors of an imminent closing date, but said they wanted either to sell the business or attract enough investment capital to revamp the two-screen theater.
Just after Sandrom, a German man who'd joined the march, introduced me to his pregnant wife whose imminent due date would proudly see "another immigrant child taking up space in Kent"—two men across the road in England shirts were shouting, "Send them all home," among other slurs.
The clipper ship sailing cards first appeared during the 1850s, advertising the departure of a ship on an imminent but indeterminate date.
