But with the writers' strike now looking as if it may extend into the new year, threatening the normal timetable for developing prime-time series, every major network is pondering the elimination of the big, garish upfront shows — which cost $3 million to $5 million a year.
Part of that political agreement would be a timetable for developing the outcomes into new legal documents for signing at some point in 2010.That, in itself, was an impressively ambitious target given where things stood at the beginning of the conference.
For now the company isn't discussing a timetable for developing a mine.
Mr. Siegel gave no timetable for developing a revised business plan, which would supplant the one the airline presented to a bankruptcy court and to a federal loan board as the basis for its restructuring, which was approved in April.
He was opposed by the Senate, which passed unanimously (95 0) the Byrd–Hagel Resolution (S. Res. 98), which stated the sense of the Senate was that the United States should not be a signatory to any protocol that did not include binding targets and timetables for developing as well as industrialized nations or "would result in serious harm to the economy of the United States".
That upended the timetable for a current round of trade negotiations that is dedicated to helping developing nations.
Ironically, the I.M.F. will be turning to these emerging markets and developing countries for help just as the euro debt crisis has delayed the timetable for long-promised increases in voting power for those nations at the I.M.F.
On Iran, the immediate concern here is that a White House pursuit of bilateral talks would stretch out the timetable for diplomacy even as Mr. Netanyahu's famous "red line" for halting Iran's capability to develop a nuclear weapon closes in.
"We do not see targets and timetables as realistic for developing countries," the head of the American delegation, Paula Dobriansky, the under secretary of state for global affairs, said in an interview today.
The timetable for structural reforms is slipping.
