"So, in a five- or six- or seven-minute kind of decision, the secretary of defense probably never hears about it until it's too late".
In the opening minutes of "The Decision," the crowd gradually quieted down.
Indeed, within minutes of the decision, Al Manar, the Hezbollah television station, hailed it as evidence of the group's power.
Mrs. Bachmann instructed her staff to reserve space at the House triangle — a spot of green outside the House side of the Capitol — where she plans to hold a news conference within 90 minutes of the decision.
Within minutes of the decision, the governor's office requested a stay to prevent the House Select Committee of Inquiry from physically forcing the governor to testify -- an action the committee has said it has no intention of taking -- until he has had a chance to appeal.
Within minutes of the decision, the Department of Justice attacked the ruling and promised to "vindicate the president's lawful authority" to enforce the law.
ON THE PLATES Practically everything: ordering took 10 minutes of agonized decision-making.
The council, according to its minutes of the decisions releasing Spurs from their previous obligations, also committed then to an "area-wide regeneration masterplan".
The minute of the 24 June decision records that the commissioners had requested that Australian Federal Police officers be made available to "help them with their inquiries".
Two important outcomes of meetings identified in the workshop were the keeping of minutes (with decisions and actions clearly marked and with the names of the people who were to follow up on the actions) and the compilation of regular reports.
In Death at Intervals Saramago explores, among other things, the ramifications for this process of a minute orthographic decision.
