On at least three separate occasions I was confident we'd finally reached Act III.
Their willingness finally to act in this area will be aninteresting signal of their determination to claw back their economies' lost competitiveness.
Finally, Act Three will be the Battle of Five Armies with, one assumes, Azog (rather than his son Bolg from the books) as the chief antagonist once again and then the epilogue which, one hopes against reason, will not be as dreary as the epilogue in the last film.
And when Congress finally got its act together, they extended the FAA for only one month.
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The positive effects of the Clean Water Act finally kicked in.
As such, it will be interesting to see if the bears can finally get their act together and put together a meaningful decline based on future employment concerns.
In case the Brits were still wondering if we Americans finally had our act together in regard to e-voting, this should add yet another nail in the coffin.
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But, as the Competition Act finally comes into force, the jury is still very much out over whether or not this legislation will produce great benefits for ordinary people.
It is sort of like the Motorola Xoom 4G, which missed its opportunity to be the first in the market and almost eight months later they finally got their act together.
After failing to anticipate the meteoric rise of smartphones and spending months languishing in the ever-growing shadow of the two smartphone giants, rivals and erstwhile market leaders, Research in Motion and Nokia, seem to have finally gotten their act straight.
Finally, the Recovery Act is saving and creating jobs all across the country.
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It would have been a better buyer of T-Mobile for a truly competitive market place for consumers and that may still come to pass when the Justice Department finally gets into the act.
But Japan must also act "to finally break free of the deflation trap" and it needed to "rely more on monetary policy to kick-start growth".
And I ask this Congress to declare that women should earn a living equal to their efforts, and finally pass the Paycheck Fairness Act this year.
But fed-up consumers may finally spur the federal government to act.
Because of the Recovery Act, we have finally jumpstarted the clean energy industry in America, and made possible 200, 000 jobs in the clean energy and construction sectors.
Finally, Congress passed the deregulatory Staggers Act, which overnight gave the rail industry back its future.
And because trade and investment are the keys to African development -- we must finally pass the African Growth and Opportunity Act.
However, this fear was quickly dispelled as the verbal sword play that occurred in the first act mellowed and we were finally let into psyches of both characters.
We need Congress to act on a comprehensive approach that finally deals with the 11 million undocumented immigrants who are in the country right now.
And finally, remember that collecting art is an act of love.
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Fact is, Congress has finally stepped up by creating the new JOBS Act and by doing so, given investors, a monumental opportunity to use both crowd-funding and subsequently, self-directed IRAs to help stimulate the economy.
Finally, companies have to empower their employees to act on the insights that they unlock.
Finally, it would be easier for Israel to act before Iran deploys its SA-20s, which may happen in early 2009.
But the Yankees fell behind again when Boone Logan gave up a 3-1 home run to Carlos Pena, setting up Farnsworth for his eighth inning Wild Thing act, and allowing the Yankees to finally consider Tropicana Field someone else's nightmare.
It looks like we may finally get a reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, landmark legislation that has helped lead to a 67 percent decrease in the rate of intimate partner violence since it was first authorized.
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With the passage of the American Tax Relief Act of 2012 (ATRA), Congress finally made the estate tax rules permanent.
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He tried to avoid criminal charges, claiming that his act was a legitimate political protest, but finally received the jail sentence.
In an act of desperation this past summer, Foursquare finally observed the death of the check-in game and moved to local recommendations and couponing.
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