Until recently the administration had voiced only approval for the generals' slow and shifting timetables for handing power to civilians.
But then came nearly two years of chaotic political transition in which Islamists, liberals, leftists, the military and the courts all jockeyed for power over an ever-shifting timetable.
While this poses challenges for future analysis, this more flexible approach has also made the study more resilient in the face of shifting intervention timetables attributable to various national and local factors.
Some MOOC providers like coursera have time-bound courses, but with regular new sessions starting every month or so allowing students who couldn't meet a particular deadline to transfer all of their work done to the next session and simply shift their timetable by a month or two.
Instead, they say, it will shift the timetable for collecting those contributions and possibly force more campaign money into independent expenditure committees that can raise and spend unlimited amounts.
At the critical moments of the story – England's climactic defeats in the knockout rounds of European Championships and World Cups – the spectacle has forced schools and businesses to shift their timetables and attracted television audiences of between 20 and 26 million people.
There is still no timetable for shifting to elected government.
This may require an accelerated timetable for shifting American forces from Iraq, where the security situation has grown somewhat less desperate.
It capped a year of opaque decisions behind closed doors, shifting ground rules and timetables, conspiracy theories about who holds true power, turbulence in the streets and growing political polarization during the military-led transition after the ouster of Hosni Mubarak.
Initially, Mr. Booker did not expect to run for the Senate until 2014, allowing him another year to help develop the company, but that timetable shifted with the death of the incumbent, Frank R. Lautenberg, on June 3.
