Facing the N.B.A.'s second toughest home-stretch schedule, the Knicks have turned to Baron Davis, who has not exactly inspired confidence of late.
But executives across many industries say newly heightened concerns for safety are adding gravity to other factors that were already weighing against frequent business travel: technical advances, stretched schedules and an expanding universe of far-flung offices that are hard to get to.
It was not feasible to use a traditional experimental approach because we knew that many providers would hesitate to be part of the first wave of participants for an intervention that would potentially impose further burdens on their already stretched schedules.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — This was supposed to be the final trip to the breakfast buffet for the Giants, a last loll on the beach for a team that opened this season facing a slew of lesser opponents, then spent the past month playing three home games (and enjoying a bye week) before entering what should be the toughest stretch of schedule in the league.
A lot of things can go wrong to stretch that schedule out, but for planning purposes, that's what one is looking at".
Now, with their sons expanding their horizons, the Spieths have more freedom to stretch their schedules.
IN a conference room at Total's headquarters, Mr. de Margerie lingered with a visitor recently, joking, stretching his schedule after an already long day and straining the nerves of his assistants, who complain that the boss is always late.
The men in orange are deep into a tough stretch of scheduling that sees them playing away from home more often than not and will now take their game to Columbus to face the Crew.
The first is assigning to a set of tasks a maximum supply voltage followed by methodical voltage reductions, thereby geometrically "stretching" the schedule.
Efforts to loosen some stubborn bolts and install the antenna stretched a scheduled six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk by two astronauts to about seven hours.
Airlines say that they have stretched their schedules to account for the inefficiency of the country's aging air traffic control system and to make their schedules more predictable for passengers.
