Moreno finished Sunday's ninth stage, a 104-mile mountainous ride from Antequera to Valdepenas de Jaen, with a provisional time of 4 hours 18 minutes 57 seconds.
But even the most contentious corporate wage slaves may not know that on Nov. 18, 1883, the country's railroad magnates, acting on the theory that they needed provisional time zones to coordinate their train schedules, seized control of the hands of time itself.
These workers operate under the direction of supervisors and are under contract for provisional time periods.
A provisional claim receives "provisional time-loss" benefits paid if a final decision cannot be made within 14 days.
Thomas is making the best of provisional time, grasping a sense of agency and maintaining pleasant activities where he can.
Similarily, Balcou-Debussche and Debussche (2009) demonstrate how bodily transition into a context of provisional time (i.e., hospitalization) could be beneficial for self-management practices.
These orientations to the challenges of worsening chronic illness are not mutually exclusive and Thomas's story incorporated a complex mix of adaptation, resistance, and fatalism: provisional time and fading time.
Significant delays in the provisional time frame guidelines were caused by 1° Regulatory aspects; 2° Insurance modalities; 3° Negotiation of sponsorship delegation contracts; 4° Site specific logistics for biobanking; 5° Clinical trials operational management.
Here, as we will see, the course of the disease can be expressed in narratives structured by provisional time and, ultimately, by the revelation of fading time: both forms characterized by the closing-in of time, in terms of both scope (where time should be focused) and duration (how much time is left).
The anguish of potentially being "too late" suggests revelation of being on the edge between provisional time (in which there is still hope that one can make provision) and fading time (in which there is only a limited viable future for the self).
