And upon the initial reporting of his death, indeed there were crowds cheering in the street and proclamations that at long last the victims of terrorism had been avenged and the survivors could sleep easier.
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At long, long last the U.S. Federal Reserve is waking up to the need to strengthen the dollar.
As elsewhere, the politicians appeared at long last to appreciate the need to reduce the government's involvement in industry.
And cutting to the chase (at long last), the BIG mistake that can destroy an investor can also be summed up with two words: Absolute Certainty.
Thirty years after its birth, the organization will at long last have fulfilled the dream of its founding fathers -- a strategic alliance that encompasses all of Southeast Asia, including Vietnam, which joined two years ago.
This year, such a proclamation should also signal the end, at long last, of the Administration's policy of distancing the United States from those seeking fundamental reform in the USSR and of aligning itself with Gorbachev in his determined effort to preserve the very system that must be displaced.
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After a decade of keeping sales figures a secret, superstore giant Wal-Mart has decided to lift a ban on the reporting of product sales, meaning that at long last the NPD will have access to video game sales numbers from the retailer.
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The engineers of Silicon Valley may still cling to the hope of finding, at long last, the Next Big Thing a technology so whizzy it makes all those share options valuable again.
The hope was that, over a weekend of deliberations, Israel and the Palestinians would at last sign the long-delayed interim deal, including Israel's withdrawal from a further 13% of the West Bank.
Moreover, it would be a welcomed development if all of China's ITICs and so-called "red-chips" in Hong Kong and on the mainland could, at long last, receive the kind of serious auditing that they have richly deserved, but never really received.
This came just as new products were supposed to be revitalising the company and at long last demonstrating some benefit from the company's merger with Daimler-Benz back in 1998.
MEPs reporting for duty after the election might at long last excite some public interest in the parliament.
But there could be a silver lining: the rest of the world could at long last deal with its vulnerability to oil and the Middle East.
In a country where Congress has given us many vague federal statutes such as RICO, and where federal courts have allowed federal prosecutors to push the boundaries of such laws beyond reasonable limits, it is possible that the feds have at long last found a statute that allows them to intimidate the press.
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Does Jost suppose that the political consensus of those more recently socialized into the scientific community should be assumed to be less disastrously misguided because science has at long last uncovered the truth about ethics?
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The SDMI deal means you will see more digital music players on store shelves in time for Christmas, when the music industry hopes to start cashing in, at long last, on the Internet-music boom.
Now Syria is in trouble in Lebanon--and the U.S. at long last appears to be taking off the diplomatic gloves.
So next week at long last the Senate's going to take this up.
A. and for the recognition at long last that our nation was made up of founding mothers as well as founding fathers.
The software and language engineers at Swiftkey have been toiling on this app for the past two years, and at long last, it's being made available for precisely nothing to anxious Android users.
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In fact, tomorrow, DealBook reports, Greenberg will be back at AIG headquarters at long last as his representatives make the case for a united legal front.
And whereas the Tories and Labour are making much of patient choice and multiple providers, the Lib Dems preferred to campaign at the last election on giving free long-term care to the elderly.
But now, at long last, the spell cast by arms control has been broken.
Russia's entry into the WTO, at long last, is welcome, but its motives are uncertain.
Every advance was followed by slippage and obstruction before, at long last, the job was done.
It was the first earnings call for Thompson, who joined the Times last fall after a long career at the BBC.
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At long last, the Dwight Howard fiasco has come to a close.
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These two massive biographies both worthy of their subject and constructed on a heroic scale will at last begin the long labour of dispelling foreigners' ignorance.
That is the course which, albeit reluctantly in a country where big bankruptcies have been rare, the government seems at long last to have plumped for.
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