It is very late in the game to begin building a state-by-state campaign infra-structure.

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Just as with energy efficient cars, no one in America is ever interested until it's already very late, then they act like, hey, this is really new.

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At some point, it is late, too late, and you are standing on the sidewalk outside somewhere very loud.

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At the World Economic Forum in the Dead Sea last week, it was evident that momentum is building, albeit very late, on public private partnerships, micro financing for small businesses and calls for an Arab Stabilization Plan to fund major infrastructure projects.

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Netcenter, which was redesigned and re-launched only in June, is very late to the portal party and it doesnt have that much to recommend it over the competition other than a huge (but largely accidental) amount of traffic.

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Last point to make, which I realized too late to incorporate it in the above, is the very interesting study about serial killers.

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We also think that the late 2011 demand surge, although it will very likely reverse in Q1, is evidence that demand price elasticity exists in solar.

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While nothing is yet resolved, and both companies are on very shaky financial footing, one hopes that some folks in Kansas will come to their senses before it is too late for both companies to heal and repair their competitive positions.

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But, with 30 years international experience at HSBC, of late at very senior levels, and a member of the parent company board since 2008, it is not credible that Stuart Gulliver can escape blame, though the previous CEO Lord Green, currently the Trade Minister in an increasingly scandal-ridden Conservative cabinet, is yet more culpable.

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