Above all it needs to report in a timescale that doesn't take 10 years".
The whole thing was succinct, beautifully encapsulated in a timescale that has left us wanting more.
It is not a timescale that allows for quick banter – and, anyway, they might not be communicating in our direction.
Even now, the co-chief executive, John Cryan, talks about a restructuring that will take five years, a timescale that looks far too relaxed if he finds himself pleading with his shareholders to give him more capital at short notice.
How to tell you about a day of wonder, when gaps between the hemispheres blurred and when four styles blended into one in defiance of a timescale that had seemed too compressed by half.
But it still took nine years, and the earlier victory relied on decades of struggle by the gay rights movement – not a timescale that is easy to sell to a teenager who might expect a new iPhone every autumn.
"While 12,000 years may be a timescale that is beyond most people's understanding, through this model we show that extinctions back then still affect the health of the planet to this day," Dr Doughty said.
Eighteen months on the prime minister must tell the party exactly when he intends to stand down within a timescale that enables his successor to take on the task of rebuilding the party and reconnecting with both our traditional supporters, and those who joined us for the first time in 1997".
She's defended our economic record against the crass lies of those who suggest that Labour created the global financial meltdown; and she understands the crucial difference between pretending that the fiscal deficit can be ignored and planning to reduce it on a timescale that doesn't choke off growth and hit the poorest hardest.
This records that over just the past 40 years, a timescale that represents the kindergarten years of a Greenland shark, the number of wild vertebrates on Earth has been reduced by 58%, surely putting the future of many of these species into question.
The grim official assessment of the capabilities of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) is a major blow to the hopes of a troop withdrawal by 2014, a timescale that assumes the ANSF will be able to start taking the lead in fighting the Taliban from next month.
