And my understanding is -- I would refer you to the Pentagon for more details, but my understanding is that that timetable is being met.

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But the timetable I constructed refreshed my memory.

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Meanwhile, as my colleague Jeff Bercovici reports, Murdoch has moved back the timetable for acquiring British broadcaster BSkyB, apparently with the hope that the hacking scandal will blow over in due time and the acquisition will be allowed to take place.

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Ever since then, my media comrades have tried to hold each president to this same timetable, not realizing that times are different, and the needs of the nation are different.

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