Much of the debate is taking place under a pending deadline of the United NationsGeneral Assembly meeting scheduled in September, when the Assembly is expected to broadly endorse Palestinian statehood in a vote that could prove deeply embarrassing to Israel and the United States, which are both expected to vote against it.
Outside observers agree that it's unlikely that Congress will retain momentum for further reform, absent another pending deadline.
The last sign-up days proved crucial to attracting more customers during the first three open enrollment periods, with reminders of the pending deadline driving procrastinators to HealthCare.gov and the state-run exchanges.
That pending deadline creates another barrier to achieving the necessary two-prong approach, since merchants may invest in that technology without assurances from banks and credit card companies that they will adopt chip and PIN cards.
Furthermore, there may be other reasons--other than pending deadlines--why a program officer might be busy, postulated KS2.
With student theses to read, stressed-out postdocs to placate, and pending grant deadlines, Gardner felt that he had no choice but to plunge right back in.
It does not apply to independent agencies or to pending regulations with deadlines imposed by federal statutes or court orders.
Woldenberg, on his blog, quotes an unnamed source alleging that the congressmen are refusing even to hold hearings on the law between now and its pending Feb. 10 deadline, as some other members of Congress have been urging them to do.
We propose a new online scheduling algorithm, called RDDS that incorporates access frequency, data size, request-deadline and data-deadline of pending requests for real-time on-demand broadcast system with dual deadlines.
They were involved in putting together a television pilot, tempers were flaring, deadlines were pending and everyone was exhausted.
