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It's as if Mr. Salinger realized, belatedly, that he had prematurely killed his best character and wanted to make it up to him.

Mr Berlusconi seems to understand, belatedly, the seriousness of Italy's economic situation.

Most of GE's recent problems have come from its financial arm, GE Capital, which it has belatedly decided to shrink somewhat.

Finally, belatedly, he gave up and said sorry: "I would like to apologise to my grandmothers. I have learnt a valuable lesson from this. "

But, as the economics professor Gary Libecap has shown in a historical analysis, such agreements are often reached only belatedly, if ever.

Their wait is all the more painful because credit is, belatedly, tightening.

That investors have belatedly woken up to sovereign risk in the euro zone is to be welcomed.

And the Turks have responded well, if sometimes belatedly. They were early to call for change in Egypt.

If financial organisations are belatedly trying to train more staff in these skills, they are not alone.

So, often belatedly, companies respond by trying to manage the risks.

Rulers in Beijing are belatedly trying to befriend his enemies.

Now that the president has belatedly followed his advice and the "surge" appears to be working, Mr McCain looks both bold and prescient.

The conference is probably an attempt, some would say belatedly, to try to build some consensus around the way forward for the transition.

Having belatedly recognised that beer and wine don't mix, Fosters has returned to its traditional role as "Australian for beer" .

The remedy, something Beijing has belatedly woken up to, is to re-establish a credible safety net.

Under Mr Prince, Citi is belatedly trying to make the conglomerate model work.

Some oil-rich Arab countries are belatedly beginning to address the problem.

Belatedly the financial regulators in Britain, who like to think of London as Europe's most innovative financial capital, have taken notice.

As Britain belatedly leaves recession behind, so the Treasury and the Bank of England will want to execute their own "exit strategies" .

It was only Nietzsche's notoriety abroad that belatedly secured the attention of his people .

Instead, he has been treated as a valued ally in recognition of his rather belatedly and patchily rendered services against AQAP.

On Iran, Obama belatedly spoke up for the "universal principle that people should have a voice in their own lives and their own destiny. "

Gbowee, 39, received the news belatedly when she switched on her mobile phone after landing in New York on a book tour.

Shareholders too are belatedly happy to trade higher returns on equity for a reduced chance of being wiped out.

Belatedly, carmakers have begun to take flex-fuel vehicles more seriously.

Belatedly, most Arab governments and commentators have come to accept the inevitability of South Sudan's separation.

Last week, they belatedly recognized the legitimacy of the rebels' National Transitional Council.

The conspiracy fizzled when cabinet ministers (belatedly) said they (grudgingly) supported the prime minister.

The African Union belatedly agreed to recognise the National Transitional Council as the country's ruling authority.

Perhaps there is still time, and a fitting stage at Liverpool, for Cole to germinate belatedly his teenage talent.

Better yet, with Secretary of State Colin Powell in Israel, Mr. Sharon should belatedly heed President Bush's call for immediate withdrawal.

David Cameron has belatedly recognised the gravity of the situation, cutting short his holiday and recalling parliament.

But that sweep also did capture some of the guilty, a reality that Murphy mentions only belatedly and almost backhandedly.

Belatedly, the agriculture ministry has begun to switch tack.

Now, belatedly, voters have rejected the party that led them to war and elected a president promising an early withdrawal.

The United Auto Workers have, belatedly, acknowledged the sacrifices they must make.

Such groups need more support, something anti-corruption activists are belatedly starting to realise.

Now ubiquitous, Jang is the caretaker-mentor while Kim's greenhorn youngest son, Kim Jong-un, is belatedly groomed as dauphin.

Stung by attacks from politicians and union leaders, fund managers are belatedly eager to get their message across.

The latest tragedies have fueled fears that the belatedly stricter standards are inadequate to prevent further accidents.

Bank of New York Mellon, a large custodian, has won lots of new business from belatedly risk-averse clients.

After a squabble lasting almost three weeks, Russia belatedly restored gas supplies to Europe via pipelines in Ukraine.

Germany belatedly accepted the need for the rescue fund to be larger and more flexible.

Banks have belatedly tightened credit standards, particularly for first-time buyers, who lubricate the housing market for everyone else.

And America, belatedly, played an indispensable political and military role.

The ECHR, meanwhile, belatedly reversed its decision to ban crucifixes in Italian schools.

At the end of "Wild Strawberries" the hero, an aged professor, is belatedly reconciled with his family and his past.

The west has belatedly discovered the virtues of nation-building in Afghanistan, but there may be no real nation to build.

Even Sony's PlayStation division has belatedly tried to join the effort.

Egypt's economy has belatedly begun to grow quite fast.

New subprime lending has tailed off this year as mortgage firms have, belatedly, become fussier about whom they will serve.

The authorities belatedly announced the charges against him, of insider trading and bribery, on February 12th.

Now - belatedly - regulators and banks are watching net data instead.

In his initial response to last week's mayhem, Mr Cameron acted belatedly, but competently.

But New Zealand is also starting, belatedly, to emulate Australia's resource-driven strengths.

One is that the audit profession is now, belatedly, engaging in new soul searching.

British commanders have belatedly realised that they have much to learn, or rather relearn, about fighting small wars in distant lands.

Portugal's government has belatedly acted to cut a deficit of similar size.

Belatedly recognizing this, leaders held the G20 meeting in Washington, a good first step.

Scovill, which saved 170 U. S. jobs by abandoning China, belatedly discovered that Clarkesville made more financial sense than China.

When the Fed belatedly pricked the resulting bubble in 1929, the Jazz Age came to an abrupt end, banks collapsed and the depression ensued.

Belatedly, Egypt's ministry of interior has sought to calm the unrest.

Not far from listening to sound of children laughing, I know that spring is really coming, albeit belatedly.

Staff were belatedly offered stock options, but the share price of the parent was so high as to make them worthless.

Largely this is because colleges are only belatedly becoming aware of how useful the financial markets can be.

And one can argue that the Chinese did the minimum necessary, and belatedly, on Iran sanctions.

When the Fed belatedly tightened in 1928, it was too late to avoid financial collapse.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon belatedly turns attention to planning for the aftermath of war.

GM belatedly sees similar virtue in Opel.

It is a lesson that many in the field are belatedly learning.

The government belatedly ordered more than 300, 000 people living within 10 kilometers (about six miles) of the plant to stay home.

Belatedly, China recognises this. Since June last year the yuan has appreciated 7% against the dollar.

I still think it's ghastly, but now, belatedly, I have decided that I am a can of baked beans after all.

In Europe, the euro zone announced a second Greek bailout after belatedly realising it was heading for default;

Airlines and the aircraft industry are belatedly being buffeted by globalisation

In 1986, the Department belatedly published final regulations containing both Type A and Type B assessment rules