That is why June 30 should be seen less as a deadline than as a guideline.
The White House budget director, Peter Orszag, spoke Sunday of Mr. Obama's target for passage of health-care legislation by early August, when Congress begins its summer recess, as less a firm deadline than a "goal".
Congress voted through the deal less hours before a deadline to raise the $16.7tn £10.5tnn) debt limit.
"It's quite clear to everyone, both to the government and to us, that we have more or less a 24-hour deadline," Mr. Dayan said.
Human minds, much less the varied sicknesses of the mind, are too complex, too mysterious for psychologists and novelists, much less political pundits on a deadline, to map with any certainty.
By David Remnick January 13 , 2011Human minds, much less the varied sicknesses of the mind, are too complex, too mysterious for psychologists and novelists, much less political pundits on a deadline, to map with any certainty.
The "reform" amendment New Yorkers sensibly defeated last month would have made a dysfunctional system more costly and less efficient by establishing a deadline and, if the Governor failed to meet it, giving legislators a shot at crafting their own budget that inevitably would be larded with boondoggles.
Moncada and collegues (2005) commented that this behavior may be a general response to a less pronounced perception of a deadline to engage in sexual activity and to the major availability of time for sexual activity in the older patients and their partners.
Today, in Nature Genetics and at a New York City press briefing, Larry Kedes and Grant Campany from the X PRIZE Foundation laid out the revised challenge, which includes a less tight deadline and other changes.
He's also up against a deadline: in less than twenty-four heurs, hashas been told, the madman's black arts will be forcibly practiced upon the world.
Nebraska, which has a deadline in less than two weeks to tell the Big 12 of its intentions, informs the Big 12 that it would prefer to join the Big Ten.
