Judge Martin will rule on how long the policy lasted.
As my colleague Patrick LaForge noted in a previous After Deadline essay on this topic, there's no firm rule for how long is too long for a sentence in a news story.
American Electric Power, one of the utilities that sued to block the new rule, knows how long it probably takes to build a scrubber, said Pat Hemlepp, a spokesman, because it has already built 25 of them at plants it operates.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration on Thursday turned down a request by five airlines to temporarily exempt New York-area flights from a new rule limiting how long passengers can be kept waiting in planes on airport tarmacs.
Here in the Phoenix suburb where US Airways has its headquarters, the talk is of the new federal rule on how long planes can sit on the tarmac waiting for the signal to take off.
There is, of course, no guarantee that your son's psychiatrist will swiftly persuade him to take his meds, and there is no invariable rule about how long the psychiatrist should be allowed to try, while your son continues to refuse medication and make life rough for himself, his family and others.
Microsoft has no hard-and-fast rule for how long it will endeavour to ensure compatibility between its current systems and legacy software.
Redfern said unbundling its own desktop service into multiple mobile apps is necessary to retain the level of simplicity required for an app to convert a download into an active user — saying an app needs to follow a "five-second rule" for how long the user will be willing to spend to figure out how it works.
Though there's no rule for how long each act should last, in general, acts run about half an hour in length, giving the audience a break with an intermission between them.
There is no written rule concerning how long a woman's torso needs to be to wear high waisted shorts, so if the best you can do is to play around with a few different lengths and choose what you like best.
