At the eleventh hour, both sides reached an agreement, leaving New Year's Day schedules unchanged.
As financial advisor Barry Ritholtz notes, these sorts of eleventh hour debates are nothing new.
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The firm was rescued in the eleventh hour by JPMorgan Chase with the prodding of the government.
Curzon stepped in at the eleventh hour to buy the castle and was determined to get the fireplaces back.
The crisis staved off by a centrist group of 14 senators at the eleventh hour could return at any time.
As just noted, a sudden outbreak of good business practices might save a whole host of them now at the eleventh hour.
But sometimes we hear stories that make us smile, and the eleventh hour success of Sword of Fargoal 2 is one of those stories.
On December 15, the bank appeared to stall for time when it came up with an identical eleventh hour bid for Clara Furse's Exchange.
The agreement with Korea would be the biggest free-trade agreement since NAFTA, and after much haggling, negotiations were concluded at the eleventh hour in Seoul in April.
The move comes shortly after European authorities reached an eleventh hour deal that outlines how they plan to reduce systemic and contagion risk and bail out Greece.
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The assembly government, Carmarthenshire Council and Millennium Commission came to the rescue at the eleventh hour on the understanding there would be a change in management and direction.
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While it was expected that Democrats and Republicans would take the situation to the extreme, reaching a deal only in the eleventh hour, the current debate appears completely deadlocked.
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Its importance was underscored earlier this month when the administration concluded a free trade agreement with South Korea at the eleventh hour, making the deal eligible for fast-track approval.
Now, here I am at the eleventh hour, wondering what might happen, who will I be, if I allow my passion to be swayed by this dangerous bad boy.
This time, European leaders outlined their agreed upon blueprint for fiscal policy unification across the member states in what some had called an eleventh hour attempt to save the euro.
This was the week the nation barely avoided one of the biggest leadership failures ever, by finally finding a way to let the country meet its debt obligations, at the eleventh hour.
Projects have been inserted at the eleventh hour, without review, and sometimes without merit, in order to satisfy the political or personal agendas of a given legislator, rather than the public interest.
While several signs point to passage of the Latin American deals, the pending South Korean free trade agreement, hatched at the eleventh hour earlier this month, will be tougher to get through Congress.
But in an eleventh hour move, David Ervine of the Progressive Unionist Party, which is linked to the loyalist paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force, said he and his assembly colleague Billy Hutchinson had signed Mr Trimble's motion.
In May, a proposed merger between Sega and Bandai, two makers of computer games, was abandoned at the eleventh hour because of opposition from middle managers at Bandai, who thought that they would get the chop.
If you're really desperate for a boost in the eleventh hour, stick with coffee or tea rather than soda and energy drinks, which come with a sugar slump, says Helen Pak, registered dietician and nutritionist at University of California at Berkeley Student Health Services.
But even in the race's eleventh hour, strategists in both parties are struggling to figure out whether turnout will be closer to 2008 levels, when nearly 70% of eligible Wisconsin voters participated in the presidential election, or 2010, when voter turnout dropped to 49%.
At the eleventh hour, the attack on Secretary Bolton has come up with a heretofore unknown charge: According to today's Washington Post, unnamed State Department sources claim that the Under Secretary deliberately withheld information from his superiors related to diplomatic and other aspects of Iran's proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Two long interviews with Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iran's reformist president from 1989 until 1997, and his successor, Muhammad Khatami obtained at the eleventh hour and in the face of disapproval from the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, add depth and crucial detail to a narrative that could so easily have been too Western.
He was reportedly behind last week's eleventh-hour objections from Shia members of the Governing Council.
The eleventh-hour pending agreement on a U.S. debt deal boosted the stock market initially Monday, while pressuring gold.
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