The league has realigned its 12 teams to three divisions and has finally adopted rules used throughout the world, including having ties, instead of breaking ties with shootouts.
It's amusing, then, to see that the magazine itself has finally adopted "I read it for the articles" as an official editorial position, this week it announcing it would no longer run nude photos of women.
After more than 20 years of abject failure to agree a new global climate deal, rich and poor countries had agreed to differ and had finally adopted 31 pages of dense, legal text which, just possibly, could set the world on a different, cleaner safer, energy path.
After a decade of turning products red in a fundraising fight against HIV/AIDS, Apple has finally adopted the hue for its biggest product of all.
India, which harbours half of the slaves in the world, has finally adopted legislation in line with the UN Protocol, making it a criminal offence to recruit, transport, harbour, transfer or receive a person without their consent or through coercion.
No, the only viable response to Romney's Gish Gallup is to use some powerful metaphor that everyone will understand, a metaphor that matches what people already think about Romney, in this case a metaphor the Romney campaign itself created to describe precisely the strategy Romney has finally adopted!
Apple has finally take steps to better cater to the children who have adopted its devices, and especially family favorite the iPad, with the launch of a Kids App Store.
A master plan has finally been adopted, and the mayor recently announced a list of long-stalled recovery projects.
The Future Forum report, and what we have adopted from the report, means that we have finally got the professionals, the politicians and the public behind the reforms.
They have finally arrived.
