The reason for this, I suppose, is that there is a general tendency to put off thinking about any sort of heavy duty: you tend to avoid looking down the calendar when you know that it is heavily stocked with looming obligations, professional or social.
It is the big decision that looms for professional footballers at every level of the game - what to do with your life after your playing career ends.
BEIJING — Nine seasons after Yao Ming walked onto a basketball court in Texas and inspired a generation of young Chinese to learn to dribble — or at least to watch until the final buzzer — his looming exit from professional basketball is being accompanied by nostalgia for the man who became a national hero.
The document, while traditionally lengthy and dense, contains key insights that can create a cumulative body of knowledge — and foreshadow looming threats, intelligence professionals said.
With another break looming, I went seeking professional help.
He saw, as many scapegoats have, his own impending professional death looming.
Prestigious organizations like the Institute of Medicine have warned of a looming scarcity of medical professionals equipped to deliver coordinated treatment of elderly health problems.
But the steep mountains looming on the horizon remind professional cyclists crossing the finish line here that the Tour de France is no vacation.
Corporate downsizing is now an entrenched business strategy; guaranteed pension plans and health benefits for retirees are disappearing, and competition from low-wage workers overseas is a looming threat to highly educated professional workers as well as blue-collar employees.
In the context of looming shortages in the oncology professional workforce, evidence of their benefit is crucial to justify recommendations for the routine and universal implementation of SCPs (Erikson et al, 2007; Medical Oncology Group of Australia, 2009).
As Christmas looms and professional discount shoppers ready their arsenal for the annual Black Friday raid, this year's hottest products will be in steep demand.
