That sounds like a belated effort to climb on to the Internet bandwagon.

ECONOMIST: Branded goods (1)

Maybe it's Sarbanes-Oxley, maybe it's the spirit of the times, or maybe it's just a belated effort to earn their own, sometimes lavish, pay, but corporate directors sure are acting up these days.

FORBES: Hit List

Tempers are running high over the Coast Guard's belated effort to recover thousands of old batteries, containing toxic materials, which it dumped between the 1920s and the 1970s in waterways all over the country.

ECONOMIST: The Coast Guard: Keeping all channels open | The

General Electric bought RCA in 1986 in a belated effort to benefit from the Reagan military buildup, but sold the military part of the business to Lockheed Martin during the defense-sector consolidation that followed the end of the Cold War.

FORBES: Road From D.C. To Cape Cod Reveals Reach Of Defense Industry

The US priority now is less to accelerate regime change than it is to salvage the West's reputation in Syria and make a belated effort to weaken the jihadist forces which have done so well out of this protracted struggle.

BBC: Analysis: US Syria strategy aims to salvage reputation

America's fresh effort is horribly belated and its commitment to Afghanistan is probably shakier than Mr Obama suggests.

ECONOMIST: Afghanistan