To assume that the next boom cannot be predicted is to guarantee that you will miss or arrive too late to take advantage of it.
His stimulus package, though huge, was subcontracted to Congress, which did a mediocre job: too much of the money will arrive too late to be of help in the current crisis.
Nora was due to arrive late Thursday or early Friday for treatment at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
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The crowd is usually wrong and they often arrive late to the shelter, after the storm has hit.
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Twenty percent of workers said they arrive late to work at least once a week, according to a February 2009 CareerBuilder.com survey of more than 8, 000 workers.
Over the last 20 years, ever since Microsoft under Bill Gates missed the internet like a hitter striking out with the bat on his shoulder, Microsoft has proven its willingness to arrive late to the party, to persist and to drink its share of the punch.
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Yet although no one wants to arrive too late, no one wants to be too early, either.
Lord Mandelson may have shown his concern for the motor industry, but those in the sector fear that his modest help will arrive too late to save any but JLR.
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Although Sony Ericsson is planning to release its glitzy Idou phone--which features a headline-grabbing 12-megapixel camera--in the second half of this year, the product is unlikely to arrive until late this year.
Yet, the first contingent of those promised military police were not scheduled to arrive until late Thursday night -- and only 100 Guard members would be in that first wave, according to Pentagon officials.
Bradford's Pakistanis began to arrive in the late 1950s to work in the textile industry.
The early-backer versions are now set to arrive at doorsteps in late June instead of April because of high-demand, according to PlayJam.
Stage time is at a premium, as is time with the singers, who generally know their roles already and arrive late in the process to learn the production.
Arrive 10 minutes late for every meeting, to avoid any obnoxious spoiler-laden pre-meeting chatter.
The Wii U, which went on sale late last year, was the first major new game console to arrive in stores in years.
He is expected to arrive in the remote capital, Nay Pyi Taw, late on Friday.
If you threatened to dock us for showing up late or for incorrectly completing a form, we'd arrive on time and tick every box.
Hisense is certainly cutting things close with this late-December release, but if you click "add to cart" now, it may just arrive in time to make its way underneath a tree.
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No word yet on which PC maker is going to pick up this design, but an Intel rep staffing the press conference told us it should arrive in time for the back to school shopping season, which usually kicks off in late spring.
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