That mood was surely what the American soccer federation had in mind when it scheduled its first qualifier here since 1976, though one of its concessions was a shaky playing field.
Sadler's Wells clocked this 10 years ago when it scheduled its first annual flamenco fortnight, a table of tapas showcasing the expanding range of flavours offered by the newly revived artform.
I wonder whether the Metropolitan Museum of Art had our contemporary cat mania in mind when it scheduled its smart, strange exhibition of the Polish-French painter Balthus – a figurative master in an age of abstraction, and one of the creepiest figures of modern art.
The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, scrutinizing the Enron scandal for months, said it scheduled its first public hearing for May; it will specifically examine the role of the board of directors in the energy trader's collapse of the energy trader.
It gave lawyers a month to prepare briefs on an issue of enormous complexity, and it scheduled arguments during its vacation.
The student newspaper, the Michigan Daily opined: "If the athletic department forgot it had Ward on its football team when it scheduled a game with Georgia Tech, it was astonishingly forgetful;... if it was conscious of Ward's being on the team but scheduled the game anyway, it was extraordinarily stupid".
It added three trains to its regular schedule on Friday; it scheduled eight extra trains for Saturday and was planning more for Sunday, too.
In June it scheduled an event about its mapping services just five days before Apple presented mapping software for the iPhone that will replace Google's technology.
In a related development, as the company and its outside directors worked to quantify the accounting damage, it scheduled a meeting Tuesday in Manhattan with its lenders, including Citibank, a unit of Citigroup; Bank of America J. P. Morgan Chasee, and others.
The film, now receiving sporadic showings on PBS (WNET in New York has it scheduled for Monday), goes out of its way to be inclusive, with families that cover a range of races and religions.
Surrey liked the result so much that it scheduled the first-ever performance of its new symphony orchestra in the atrium.
