Gore advisers said the decision, and its timing, a week before the opening of the Democratic convention in Los Angeles, also was grounded in Mr. Gore's recognition that he needed to do something to shake up the race.
It is hard to imagine a stranger twist of timing: a week today, the Bosnian team, half of whom grew up as refugees far-flung by war, play their opening game in the high temple of football – the Maracanã stadium, Rio de Janeiro – against mighty Argentina, the former world champions.
The timing, just a week ahead of local elections, raised speculation that it was an attempt by Belgrade to destabilize the political process.
Dungy, the former coach of Tampa Bay and Indianapolis, questioned the timing after a week in which Childress waived Randy Moss and argued Friday at practice with wideout Percy Harvin.
His departure stunned the industry, and its timing, within a week of the arrest of Bernard L. Madoff, the New York asset manager now serving a 150-year jail sentence for fraud, provoked a torrent of speculation.
The timing, just a week ahead of local elections in which pro-Milosevic parties are pitched against the Montenegrin government and its allies, raised speculation that it was an attempt by Belgrade to destabilize the political process.
And what about the timing – in a week in which the big news story (apart from in the Murdoch press, weirdly) is about human tragedy followed by lies and coverup on a massive scale.
The party had been planned before Rupert Murdoch made his bid for Dow Jones, but its timing, a few weeks before he is due to take control on December 13th, meant that "it felt like we were seeing the paper off to sea," says an editor who went.
The series, which plays comedic variations on a different "important thing" every week (the first week's topic is timing; the second week's is power), has potential.
Neat timing, too, in a week when the country's housing professionals are in Manchester for the annual conference run by the Chartered Institute for Housing (CIH), and when the affordability crisis has been glaringly highlighted in Shelter's report on house prices, which shows that fewer than two in 10 houses for sale in England could be bought by families on average wages.
The company did not say what it planned to announce, but given the timing less than a week after top Verizon executives gave a keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, speculation in tech circles was rampant that Verizon would announce that it would begin selling the iPhone.
