It was long enough to get the story and attend to some overdue family business but not so long that I could suffer too much sadness.
Candidates who are well liked in the business, are "overdue", fatten up for a part, or play a character with learning difficulties often enjoy an inflated chance of success.
We are witnessing either an epic financial meltdown or a long overdue resetting of existing business practices and the hollow markets they create.
Even Randall believes that some culling was probably long overdue, and that remaining businesses will benefit from being made to become leaner and meaner; he just wishes that it didn't all come with so much unhelpful doom-mongering.
Yet a genuine public debate about what constitutes a good business is long overdue, though the coalition parties have begun to dabble with the idea in small ways themselves.
He took over and told the widow his story about the laundry-and-cleaning business and payments overdue, and explained about the fixtures and the attachment notice, and the bailiff's office and what they were going to do to him; and he said, "I'm a small man trying to make a living".
It's the right thing to do, it's long overdue, and it's good business, too.
"The worm has turned against big tech, and it's overdue," wrote Scott Galloway, a New York University business professor and tech consultant, in a Friday post.
Before breaking for the August recess, Congressional leaders now hope to wrap up the unemployment aid, another bill to provide loans and incentives to help small businesses, and an overdue measure to provide money for combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
