The facility charged a financial penalty for being late and guess what happened next?
Hunting foxes is no longer an acceptable excuse for being late for work in any important American city.
But I remember being late once, and we got told off so bad.
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As a result, commuters report losing their jobs for being late, or being forced to change jobs because routes have changed.
But Mr Castro missed a golden propaganda opportunity, by being late for the group photo session (which went ahead without him).
Mr. Chesney used to have anxiety dreams about being late for concerts.
Being late, causing embarrassment, confrontational behaviour, a public insult or calling attention to a mistake can all cause loss of face and could seriously damage a business relationship.
"While some employers tend to be more lenient with worker punctuality, 30 percent say they have terminated an employee for being late, " said Rosemary Haefner, vice president of human resources for CareerBuilder.com.
In the French race he was given a drive-through penalty for cutting a chicane and in Valencia last month he incurred a 5, 000 euros fine for being late to a news conference.
Or worse, if he begins to make excuses for being late, even as his tardiness becomes habitual, your trust continues to erode until you take steps to protect yourself from his late arrivals.
However, with the launch of new budget devices powered by Windows Phone Tango, we expect it to gain more market share in the coming years despite Microsoft being late to the smartphone party.
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There were other takeaways of course: be on time (I have no tolerance for being late), have clear and concise directions and be frugal (Eli, after all, paid cash and kept my tips).
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There are no good excuses for being late.
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Then there is digital technology: instead of arriving on the dot, you can send a text message apologising for being late (with nearly 25 billion messages sent in 2005, Germany is one of Europe's text-messaging champions).
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My apologies for being so late in replying to your instructive letter of Sept. 14.
In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late.
It is not that they caught me being slightly late and charged me a ton of back interest.
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Overall, I think more startups do fail by being too early to market than fail by being too late.
City's Matt Hazley was was taken to hospital with a suspected broken ankle after being tackled late in the game.
Because the prize came into being so late, there is still a backlog of elderly luminaries waiting to be recognised.
State police credited the travel ban, which was being lifted late afternoon Saturday, with only 30 drivers needing to be rescued.
He also complained that some ministers were being made late for news conferences, meaning their Commons statements were misinterpreted in the press.
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The review of subsequent disbursements would show material items being paid late.
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In the world of technology, it is often said that being too early can be just as fatal as being too late.
New York Police Department officials said that the suspect was being pursued late Thursday, and that police are investigating how he was able to flee the precinct.
"Indeed rather than being too late, now is actually a necessary time to act, before even larger numbers begin to anchor and before anchoring takes firm root globally, " he said.
Jay Morgan, a 54-year-old financial planner and neighbor, found it curious there were no apparent screams or sounds of struggle, despite it being a late summer night when many people had their windows open.
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