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.
The popular image of these late years may be of crusty and decrepit ancients.
In the latest of a long string of disappointments, management announced that its new line of phones would not be out until late 2012 instead of the first quarter and cited the availability of key component parts as the reason for the delay.
There were a lot of tactical moves to be made late last week, with lots of patterns triggering on Off the Charts and the Price Point Sheet.
Sure, it may be late for a chronicle of the zany dotcom 1990s.
But it may be too late: some of Mr Serra's allies have deserted, and there is even talk of him quitting.
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He also made sure the military personnel knew their insurance would not be canceled because of late payments necessitated by their combat status.
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After a successful pilot programme last year, there will also be a series of late-night events in galleries across the city, involving artists, DJs, poets and comedians.
Stroll into the school lobby even a minute after the start of the day, and this would be recorded in the form of a late note. (To the annoyance of my parents, many of mine were time-stamped 8:02.) Down to the minute, we knew where we had to be, when we had to be there and what we had to do upon arrival.
The fertility industry in the US state of Washington will be transformed in late July 2011, when a new law to recognise rights of donor-conceived people comes into effect.
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By October, he said, it could be too late for that kind of information to influence the election.
The SFA will give clubs as long as it can but promises there will be no repeat of the late postponement at Falkirk last weekend.
Back then the local companies made little commitment to Android and were still betting their smartphone future on the mature Windows Mobile, only to be burned by the late arrival of Windows Phone 7.
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By the time some people do find out about the new laws it will be too late for them because of the very strict time bars - 12 months after separation and six months after a death.
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By the time they do, it might be too late to get in on the ground floor of what could be a big gainer in future years.
Lewis, who never anticipated feeling intense romantic love, finds this twist of fate inconceivably cruel: the great experience of his life turns out to be a case of too much, too late.
Last month US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said he expected the transition process to be complete by mid to late 2013 - ahead of the timetable outlined by the UK Ministry of Defence last year.
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But as of late Monday, there appeared to be little enthusiasm from at least three of the other parties in Parliament.
But in a January exercise, at the start of the tax year, payment of the additional tax can be deferred for 15 months, as late as the April of the following year.
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This will start all of them off and it can be the early hours of the morning or very late at night, but this doesn't worry them.
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Lots of flights will be late - unrelated maybe, but it will fuel the talk.
There is something to be said, in the late afternoon of one's career, for having investments that can manage themselves perfectly well in one's absence.
In the last six weeks, 100, 000 ash trees have been destroyed and experts say it may be too late to stop the spread of the fungus.
But while some tracks may have a touch of techstep, nothing ever branches whole-heartedly (read: obnoxiously) into dubstep, which seems to be the industry trend as of late.
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The deadline -- expected deadline for the debt limit to be increased is -- of course, could be between mid May and late July.
Top of United's list of memorable late shows has to be the 1999 Champions League final against Bayern Munich when the team scored twice in three minutes of stoppage time to flip a 1-0 deficit.
Chief Philippine government negotiator Robert Aventajado said he was confident that all of the remaining hostages, including four Europeans from among the original 21 kidnapped at the Malaysian island resort of Sipadan in late April and a Filipino man, would be released after payment of additional "development aid" by Tripoli.
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