According to the official timetable, all WTO members, except the very poorest, were supposed to have made initial offers on what services they would liberalise two years ago.

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All six stadiums should have been ready by December 2012, according to the original timetable.

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According to the current European timetable, those countries (probably including Germany) willing and able to adopt the euro from the start, on January 1st 1999, will be named next spring.

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According to the Reuters report, the deal is supposed to be finalized over the Super Bowl weekend but that the timetable could slip.

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The panel, which includes influential Democrats and Republicans, will stop short of setting a specific timetable for withdrawal, according to sources who have seen the executive summary of the report.

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