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2 unusual facts about Deadline


Tasie Lawrence

In August 2013, it was announced on the industry website, Deadline, that Lawrence had been cast in a lead role in an upcoming HBO comedy pilot, written by Diallo Riddle and Bashir Salahuddin.

Texts From Last Night

Deadline.com reported in October 2011 that a new comedy television series based on the blog is in development at Fox, with Ugly Betty developer Silvio Horta at the helm.


2009 Pocono 500

Failed to make race due to qualifying canceled due to rain: Derrike Cope (#75), Tony Raines (#37), Mike Wallace (#64, was a late entry missing the deadline.)

2009–10 Oxford United F.C. season

Jamie Cook was signed on the transfer deadline using a 12th Man scheme where supporters helped to pay the transfer fee.

2014 Gay Games

During its annual meeting in Cape Town on 28 October 2008, the FGG announced that four cities made the deadline and were thus in the running to host the games: Boston, Cleveland, Miami, and Washington, DC.

2015 World Championships in Athletics

When the seeking deadline passed on 15 March 2010, three candidate cities (Beijing, London and Chorzów) had confirmed their candidatures.

2019 World Championships in Athletics

When the seeking deadline passed on 2014, three candidate cities (Barcelona, Spain; Eugene, Oregon, USA and Doha, Qatar) had confirmed their candidatures/

An Act to exempt a particular class of securities from the Securities and Exchange Act

The bill H.R. 701, an act to amend a provision of the Securities Act of 1933 directing the Securities and Exchange Commission to add a particular class of securities to those exempted under such Act to provide a deadline for such action, was a bill introduced into the United States House of Representatives in the 113th United States Congress.

Antideficiency Act

The ADA is cited as the reason for a government shutdown when Congress misses a deadline for passing an interim or full-year appropriations bill.

Barret Loux

At the 2012 trade deadline, the Rangers acquired Geovany Soto from the Chicago Cubs for Jake Brigham; however, the Cubs were concerned about Brigham's health and agreed to the trade on the condition that if Brigham was unable to play, the Cubs would send Brigham back to the Rangers and acquire Loux and a player to be named later in his place.

Berliet T100

The trucks were designed and built in secret, and with a tight deadline; the first was finished after nine months, at the factory in Courbevoie.

Bobby Malkmus

Washington gave Malkmus 47 games to prove himself in 1958-59, but he batted only .186 and was outrighted to the unaffiliated Denver Bears of the American Association at the May 1959 cut-down deadline.

Churandy Martina

However, on 24 August, the Netherlands Antilles filed an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to reinstate Martina's medal, arguing that the American protest came after the 30-minute deadline for protests and appeals set by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), and also that they have their own video footage (not the official Olympic video footage) showing that Martina never left his lane.

Damien Comolli

Comolli made an instant impact at Liverpool as he was responsible for the signings of two players, Luis Suárez and Andy Carroll, on January 2011's transfer deadline day, with Carroll's signing breaking the record for most expensive British player ever and eighth most expensive player in history, overtaking David Villa and Wayne Rooney.

David Dellucci

Just before the trade deadline in the 2003 season, Dellucci was traded to the New York Yankees, along with pitcher Bret Prinz and catcher John Sprowl, in exchange for outfielder Raúl Mondesí.

Deadline for Love and Other Stories

Deadline for Love and Other Stories is a collection of 12 short stories written by Singaporean writer Catherine Lim.

Digital television adapter

At the Consumer Electronics Association's Entertainment Technology Policy Summit in March 2006, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein said many Americans did not know about the February 17, 2009, deadline for ending analog TV.

Drew Smyly

Following the Tigers' trade deadline acquisition of starter Aníbal Sánchez from the Miami Marlins, Smyly spent much of August and September coming out of the Tiger bullpen.

Duaner Sánchez

In the early morning hours on July 30, 2006, less than 24 hours prior to the 2006 trading deadline, Sanchez was injured in a taxicab accident in Miami, Florida on Interstate 95; the accident was caused by a drunk driver.

Evan Trupp

On March 8, 2013, the 2012-13 ECHL trading deadline, the Condors moved Trupp to the Alaska Aces in exchange for Shawn Skelly and Chris Haltigin.

Freddy García

At the July 31 trading deadline in 2004, he was traded to the Chicago White Sox in exchange for Michael Morse, Miguel Olivo, and Jeremy Reed.

Hugo Hovenkamp

Hovenkamp was forced to withdraw from the 1978 World Cup squad due to injury, but as the deadline for calling up replacement players had passed, the Netherlands were unable to replace him.

I, Libertine

It is said that Betty Ballantine completed the final chapter after an exhausted Sturgeon fell asleep on the Ballantines' couch, having tried to meet the deadline in one marathon typing session.

Joe Anyinsah

Just one day before the transfer window deadline, Anyinsah, along with Paul Benson, signed for Charlton Athletic.

Kaihu

Several Europeans tried to purchase land at Kaihu before a deadline on land purchases set for 14 January 1840 by Sir George Gipps.

Lee Canoville

He played only one further game for Northampton before returning to Highbury, and although attracting interest from Torquay manager Colin Lee, remained there beyond transfer deadline day.

Lopez Adobe

Plans to obtain a HUD grant fell through, and in early 1971, the owners imposed a deadline on the purchase, and indicated the building would be razed and the land cleared.

Marián Gáborík

After scoring 9 goals in 35 games, Gaborik was dealt at the trade deadline on April 3, 2013, along with minor league players Blake Parlett and Steven Delisle to the Columbus Blue Jackets in exchange for Derick Brassard, Derek Dorsett, John Moore and a sixth-round pick.

Marvin Goldhar

Goldhar also played roles in live-action such as Mogul in Mafia Princess, Gareth Williamson in Night Heat, Grandpa Maurice in The Zack Files, Ron Morrow in Hot Money, Detective #1 in A Deadly Business, Larry Sr. in Big Deal, Burt Horowitz in Deadline, Phil King in The Last Polka, Harry in Club Land as well as a guest star on Saturday Night Live.

Michael Bourn

In July 2011, prior to the trade deadline, Bourn was traded to the Atlanta Braves for Jordan Schafer, Brett Oberholtzer, Paul Clemens and Juan Abreu.

Microblogging in China

Early in February 2012, China's four key weibo companies – Sina, Sohu, NetEase and Tencent – announced that March 16, 2012, was the deadline for users to adopt their real name identity.

Mike Grella

After the arrival of Ross McCormack and the emergence of Davide Somma saw Grella dropped down the pecking order at Leeds, Grella was set to go out on loan in order to gain some more first team experience, on transfer deadline day he turned down a loan move to League Two side Oxford United.

Mike Venafro

He is also referred to in the 2011 film of the same name during a scene where Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) offers him to the San Francisco Giants to drive down interest in Ricardo Rincón, who Beane is attempting to acquire from Cleveland at the trading deadline.

Mineral rights

In November 2013, the Duchy of Cornwall declared that, unbeknownst to the Stoke Climsland villagers, they possessed the mineral estate under their homes, and gave them all an ultimatum with a December deadline to produce deeds that showed otherwise.

Money No Enough

The loan sharks beat up Ong for not repaying the loan within the two-week deadline, so he flees to Johor Bahru.

Pushing Tin

Successfully routing all but one plane that has lost radio contact, Nick leaves the building as the deadline approaches, while Russell instead remains inside to make contact with the plane by calling one of its passengers via Airfone.

Russian presidential election, 2000

One of them withdrew shortly before the deadline, so 11 candidates took part in the elections: Vladimir Putin, Gennady Zyuganov, Grigory Yavlinsky, Amangeldy Tuleyev, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Konstantin Titov, Ella Pamfilova, Stanislav Govorukhin, Yury Skuratov, Alexey Podberezkin, and Umar Dzhabrailov.

Ryan's Law

Sen. Joel Lourie (D-Columbia) played an instrumental role in arranging negotiations between those in favor of the bill and those representing the insurance companies, and in furthering discussions during intense deadline pressure.

Sikorsky CH-148 Cyclone

On July 10, 2012 when discussing Sikorsky missing another delivery deadline in June 2012 Defence Minister Peter MacKay called the Cyclone purchase "the worst procurement in the history of Canada".

Slippage

Project slippage, in project planning, the act of missing a deadline

Southern Rhodesian general election, 1980

British Army forces then set up 16 assembly points throughout Southern Rhodesia where Patriotic Front guerillas could disarm and return to civilian life; 18,300 did so by the deadline of 6 January.

Statewide opinion polling for the Republican Party presidential primaries, February 2012

Maine Senate President Kevin Raye stated that the final tally would be updated to include the results from the Washington County caucus held on February 18, but that the State Committee would vote on March 10 to determine if the other towns who voluntarily held their caucuses after the February 11 deadline would be included.

Steven Old

On 28 February 2013, Steven Old signed for China League One side Shijiazhuang Yongchang Junhao on transfer deadline day in China, replacing Vlado Jeknić who injured a week before.

Temporal motivation theory

According to Lord, Diefenforff, Schmidt and Hall, the theory "models the motivating power of approaching deadlines, arguing that the perceived utility of a given activity increases exponentially as the deadline nears. These and similar ideas have been applied to the pervasive phenomenon of procrastination".

The Stuff of Legend

According to Deadline, Walt Disney Pictures has just made a pitch deal to make a film version of the grapic novel with Pete Candeland to direct and Shawn Christensen writing the script.

The Suitcase

A deadline is looming over a campaign for the suitcase manufacturer Samsonite.

Wally Hickel

AIP chairman Joe Vogler was brought from Fairbanks to Anchorage immediately prior to the deadline for political parties to substitute their nominees.

Young Abe Lincoln

Will Lamm, an entrant in the competition, claimed that the judging committee accepted entrants after the official deadline of December 7, 1959 had passed.


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