Campaign strategists may complain about adding the forum to the tight calendar that has three debates scheduled before the election.
The band had first approached Madison Square Garden but the famous Manhattan arena, which has a tight calendar, did not have two dates available in December, officials there said.
But that proposal would require writing and passing complicated new legislation that could be difficult to achieve, given the tight calendar.
Melissa Ormond, the president of Madison Square Garden Entertainment, acknowledged that the Garden's tight calendar has meant it has few dates to offer artists, and that Barclays has benefited, as have the suburban arenas.
The language floats into the unaccountable, the surreal, the untimed ("Monday I can't promise, Tuesday's unpredictable to the point of science fiction"), but the plot follows a tight calendar of formula.
But it is unclear that Mr. Reid can meet those demands, given the extremely tight calendar, or that Mr. McConnell is willing to make any agreement on the length of debate or number of amendments.
If the right wing of the European parliament had not imposed such a tight calendar, the members of the European parliament could have drafted an interim report, which would have put conditionalities to the ratification of the agreement, by giving recommendations to the commission and member states on how to implement it.
Everybody's running a tight calendar.
The tight Congressional calendar also means that some of the jobs might go unfilled for months longer.
The blame lies with a tight Senate calendar, a stubborn senator from Oklahoma and an unusual coalition of left- and right-wing advocates for small farmers who have mounted a surprisingly effective Internet campaign.
