There is no question that the unexplained 11-year delay between the filing of the discrimination complaint and the scheduling of the hearing is properly characterized by petitioner as "egregious". Nevertheless, the time limits set forth in Executive Law § 297 have been held to be directory rather than mandatory (Corning Glass Works v Ovsanik,
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