If all goes according to plan, the House of Representatives this week will take important, if long overdue, steps towards securing the Nation's borders and interior.
Greater concern for the impoverished would be most welcome, if not long overdue, at the IMF itself.
Meanwhile, local accountants said the agency sent letters to some taxpayers offering them "amnesty" if they paid long-overdue taxes when in fact no taxes were owed that tax year.
We will see if that kind of long-overdue dynamic scoring is allowed once Democrats start writing the bill.
Unfortunately, it would be par for the Bush Administration's course if, having now reluctantly delivered this long-overdue slap on the wrist, the Secretary of State were to be dispatched to Belgrade to smooth ruffled Serbian feathers.
Even if the fractious five manage to give birth to their long overdue resolution, Mr Hussein will probably reject it, smartly.
If he can achieve that, Japan might start a long-overdue push to reform and revitalise its economy.
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Even if the reality falls short of world exchanges, consolidation is long overdue for those who need capital or who have capital to supply.
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It looks as though the Federal Communications Commission may yet have to step in if the industry as a whole is to make its long-overdue leap into the present.
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It's a commitment that's paid for in part by efficiencies in our system that are long overdue, and it's a step we must take if we hope to bring down our deficit in the years to come.
Most of what is in the bill is long overdue and I do not think would have caused us too much trouble even if we were to have sufficient time to discuss it in detail in committee.
At long last, President Boris Yeltsin has taken a step months if not years overdue: He has formally dissolved the communist-dominated parliament, a critical step toward eliminating the most important remaining impediment to genuine structural reform in Russia along democratic and free market lines.
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