The decision by the United States and nearly two dozen other trading partners to negotiate a new agreement to facilitate global trade in services is welcome, if not overdue, news.
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Greater concern for the impoverished would be most welcome, if not long overdue, at the IMF itself.
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.
Not only does it divert attention from overdue police reforms.
And Labour MP for Birkenhead Frank Field said that, while the introduction of women bishops was "long overdue", he did not favour "interfering with the processes that are synod's processes".
Though long overdue, this change alone will not be enough.
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It is long-overdue recognition that intelligent life is not something for us to seek in the outer reaches of space but is abundant right here on earth, under our noses.
Perhaps we sound ungrateful, but this sort of acceleration for Flash -- the internet's most popular multimedia delivery method -- is long overdue, and we're not overly impressed with the idea of waiting until mid-2010 for it to happen.
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The 5.3% is based on a definition of a soured loan as one overdue for at least six months, not three months as in Hong Kong and Singapore.
House GOP leaders finally passed their long-overdue budget plan, but that does not mean the Republican faithful are any closer to delivering an election-year tax cut to the voters.
It may not sound riveting, but reforming Chinese farming is long overdue and a crucial matter of stability.
We have not signed a new trade agreement in three years, and they are long overdue.
But even dire straits have not kept steel firms in other parts of the world from obstructing the long-overdue process of consolidation.
For instance, the integration of foreigners should become smoother thanks to the long-overdue decision to modify an 85-year-old law that made ancestry, not residence, the determinant of who is German.
Internal restructuring is not the only reason for this slowdown (the bank is also in the midst of an overdue effort to improve the quality of its loans), but it is certainly a big factor.
We need a long-overdue update to wiretapping laws that were intended to protect citizens from electronic search and seizure but which did not anticipate mobile devices and cloud storage.
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Despite that, and the good news this week that their overdue loans had dropped by over a third in the 12 months to September, the banks are still not in good shape.
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