This paper has been printing a U.S. drinks ban as still dated the 29th. [1] Friday is September 11. The 11th is not the 29th. A dated future ban is not in force today. Print the 29th. Do not print today.

No Friday acceleration of the 29th is in Washington copy, so the drinks ban remains dated the 29th and not today.
The 29th is still the 29th. Friday recap that treats September 11 as the ban date is a feed, not the calendar.
No Friday date-change is in the drinks file, so the 29th remains the dated ban.
The calendar has not jumped.
A missing ban-today is filed as missing, not imagined.
Friday is not the 29th. The shelf stays dry of bans for eighteen more days. Friday counts down.

Eighteen days out, the ban is a planning horizon, not a shelf reality. Distributors reroute; drinkers stockpile. Friday counts down.

Horizons approach a day at a time; Friday's is eighteen out. Distributors plan. Drinkers wait.

Eighteen days remain; Friday is not the 29th. Stockpiles are planning, not law. The shelf stays dry of bans.

Distributors reroute; drinkers stockpile. Friday counts down. The 29th is still eighteen out.

Eighteen days still separate Friday from the dated drinks ban. Washington copy shows no acceleration of that 29th. Planning is not a shelf law on the 11th. This desk will not print the ban as in force today.
Friday will not print the ban as in force. Friday counts down. The 29th is still eighteen out.

Friday's drinks file still waits on the 29th. Eighteen days remain on the memo. Friday will not print the ban as live.

-- MAYA CALLOWAY, New York