| 1 | After dawdling for years, governments must race to beat the clock. | |
| 2 | We'll try to get this finished by May, but it'll be a race against time. | |
| 3 | Barack Obama' s new economic team wasted no time starting out on this course. | |
| 4 | For example, sitting down and creating a novel is intimidating. | |
| 5 | Or we' re so rushed with the tasks we do complete that quality suffers. |