Faced with a likely downward trajectory, some Sedgwicks found it opportune to marry up.
It was then televised and later revived during the Gulf war and it seemed opportune to bring it back now.
The price was inadequate, it said, adding, "It is not opportune to consider a sale of the company".
For those dating, Venus makes the next three weeks opportune to try your luck: know any Scorpios?
"Following the well-known events of recent days," said a Vatican statement released Tuesday, "it seems opportune to delay the event".
Except for a denouement too contrived and opportune to be convincing, the story manages to proceed in an orderly and persuasive fashion.
Several Republicans, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Representative Peter King, have found it politically opportune to target "creeping Shariah in the United States" at a time when the middle name of the president is Hussein.
The company, whose market capitalization was $4.25 billion based on Friday's closing stock price of $33.19 a share, said that deregulation of the power industry made the time opportune to consider a sale, but declined further comment.
In rejecting the Unilever offer earlier this month, Bestfoods indicated that the price was too low and added "it is not opportune to consider a sale of the company".
Mr. Kerry's aides said they were not worried, arguing that now is opportune to raise money and devise a strategy, as they struggled with the inevitable growing pains of changing from a primary campaign to a general election campaign.
At the time, the board of Bestfoods unanimously rejected the plan, saying the price was inadequate and that it did not think it was "opportune to consider a sale of the company".
