But he never said anything about leaving Afghanistan on a specified timetable.
Officials also said the proposal called for a "reasonable transition period" for firms to comply with the rules, but the timetable was not specified.
But in the last month, the corps, which is overseeing the reconstruction efforts, has specified a timetable for the work that effectively means that the value of any contract companies other than Halliburton could win would be worth only about $176 million, according to Corps of Engineers documents and executives in the engineering and construction business.
Punctuality of the HSR services can be expressed by two attributes: (i) the ratio of the number of transport services carried out on time, i.e., according to the timetable, or with the specified maximum or average delays, and the total number of services carried out, and (ii) the average delay per delayed service.
In addition, it would have preserved a modified version of the ABM treaty, which Bush has since scrapped altogether; specified a detailed timetable and a new inspection regime; and required the actual destruction of warheads and delivery systems, which under the present treaty can be put in storage.
The capacity of HSR rolling stock reflects its size expressed by the number of trains of a given seating capacity required to operate under the conditions specified in the timetable.
Outcome measurement was planned according to time points specified in the timetable in figure 1.
Although the day and date each questionnaire was to be completed and returned was highlighted on the front cover and specified in the timetable, in an attempt to increase study compliance the research team sent a text message to each participant the day before the onset of the study, always a Sunday.
Mr. Hamoud said the draft specified that meeting the timetable, particularly the goal of full withdrawal by 2011, depended on the security situation.
In ordering the county to revise its plan, the court-appointed monitor, James E. Johnson, said officials had failed to specify timetables or processes to build or create 750 homes and to aggressively market them to nonwhites in Westchester and New York City.
