The new law, the Budget and Impoundment Control Act, enacted in July 1974 over the veto of President Richard M. Nixon, gave Congress a "transitional quarter" in the summer of 1976, pushing the deadline back three months.
BNP Paribas described the period as a "transitional quarter" for its corporate and investment banking business, in which revenue slid 21.1 percent from a year earlier to 2.5 billion euros, and pretax income tumbled more than 30 percent to 806 million euros.
"Overall, this is a transitional quarter with the new iPads and iPhones coming out.
In Q3, we continued to manage through a tough transitional quarter for our smart devices business as we shared the exciting innovation ahead with our new line of Lumia products.
In many ways, the second quarter was transitional for the markets, investors and the mutual fund business, which faced new rules from federal regulators to bolster the independence of fund boards.
The fourth quarter capped a transitional 2012 for G.M., its third full year of operations since its bankruptcy and $49.5 billion government bailout in 2009.
Facing a depleted Rapids squad, followed by the Houston Dynamo coming off a tough Champions League quarter-final defeat and transitional teams in Real Salt Lake and New England, Dallas's fixtures have been kind.
As discussed in more detail below, there were some small effects of the CEO transitional jobs program on overall employment in some quarters late in the follow-up period.
Safra Catz, a co-president of Oracle who is also serving as the company's chief financial officer, said the company was pleased with the quarter, which she described as a transitional one.
They then may be transferred to transitional, nursery beds before being moved to their final rearing quarters.
The first two quarters of 2008 were considered to be a transitional period that was therefore unsuitable for analysis.
