The old agreement expired Nov. 7, but the two sides have not faced any real deadline.

The owner who talked about the real deadline said even those owners who will vote for the agreement are not thrilled with it.

Mrs Clarke said then: 'It was our last real deadline.

'Though we don't want to waste time, of course, there's no real deadline.'

First, there was a real and pressing deadline for action in 1983 that simply does not exist today.

I have no real deadline, but the editors are waiting for my article, and they have homework to do, too.

"Maybe the real deadline the spook had was to get us to that castle before the crack of dawn."

This also includes the G8, which set real deadlines for major tasks.

Most of all, any high-stakes negotiation requires a real deadline - it has to be believed.

"The only real deadline is that they have the name to print the ballots in October."