"The biggest challenge for us this first year is that we got such a late start, " says Lemieux.
This spring's tornado season got a late start, with unusually cool weather keeping funnel clouds at bay until mid-May.
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It rushed Januvia to market, pulling past Novartis after a late start.
So with a late start, do we get a few extra days?
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This year's convention got off to a late start when Monday's programme was postponed amid concerns that Hurricane Isaac might disrupt the proceedings in Tampa.
Campaign manager Mike DuHaime says that Giuliani got a late start.
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And while his determination to do it himself is admirable, the result is often a late start to the day and a shirt with undone buttons.
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Employee got a late start because she was putting a rain coat on her cement duck in her front yard (because rain was expected later that day).
Marcum entered with an 8.59 ERA after getting a late start due to biceps tendinitis and has lost four consecutive decisions for the first time in his career.
Scandinavian countries are often cited as examples of how a late start in formal lessons can still lead to high standards and levels of socialisation in later years.
Safin said he still expected to play in the Australian Open, which starts on Monday, but would ask officials for a late start to give him as much time as possible to recover.
The delays, of course, made headlines for weeks in an already dramatic tax season marked by a late start, sequestration worries and last minute online outages reported by TurboTax customers.
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Partly, that's because Korea has had a late start - we've been so caught up in our own industrialisation, and we only have a limited number of scholars or academic papers on this issue.
While taxpayers expected minor glitches associated with a late start to the tax season, the magnitude of the delays, especially those involving the form 8863 for education credits, took the tax world by storm.
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Delayed refund checks due to a late start to the tax season this year and snafus with returns claiming education credits no doubt contributed to slower sales because consumers had less cash in hand.
To put that into perspective, there are now over 220 million 3G phone users in China (as of end of November), meaning the carrier still has plenty of catching up to do as it had a late start in the 3G game.
Hopes were raised when the companies decided to start a late-stage trial of the drug, but data from mid-stage trials is not yet available, so it's difficult to know whether that bet will pay off.
Her unique style, she says, emerged because of her late start as a singer.
Some of this flows from a late 1990s revival, after good rains and the start of a booming cotton irrigation industry.
If she can delay an increase in her coverage costs, she will likely start a new plan late this year, rather than next March, when her current plan runs out.
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The announced plan to shut down underperforming stores follows a late-2005 effort to jump start wireless phone sales by dumping Verizon Communications and signing with Sprint Nextel and Cingular .
Bono, who spent decades in the entertainment industry and gained fame as half of the popular singing duo Sonny and Cher, left it all behind in the late 1970s to start a restaurant in Palm Springs.
The first is that 20 years old is very late to start specialising in a subject.
"I quit architecture because I knew it was too late for me to start a career here in the U.S., " he says.
As Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the fund's boss, puts it: if countries start cutting budgets a year late, they will have an unnecessarily large debt burden.
Mr Lucas heads off with another question to ponder: is it already far too late to start queuing for a seat in the Wilson Room?
Zap Mama played in the studios of KEXP near the start of a summer tour in late June, and performed four new songs from the album.
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