Extra fees for late pick-up at child care are common, as is docked pay for tardy arrival at a second job.
She's both demanding and nurturing to her devoted staff, complaining vociferously about her tardy speechwriter at one moment, ordering up a trunk full of cowboy boots as gifts the next.
At the peak of the rush, from 8 30 to 9 30 a.m., about 25 percent of New Jersey Transit trains entering Manhattan arrived late; about 2 in 5 of the late trains were tardy by at least 15 minutes.
In recent days, with the specter of an Anthony D. Weiner candidacy looming over an already crowded field of Democratic mayoral contenders, Mr. de Blasio, the public advocate, has turned up the intensity of his attacks on Ms. Quinn, the front-runner, over everything from her role in lifting term limits to her tardy arrival at a candidates' forum.
If you feel that you will get off track, then just like you have "Tardy Bells" at school, set up an alarm to function as your "Bell".
One suspects that the tardy train driver at First Great Western should also watch out.
Hardly tardy, but then at the top of the order Shane Watson had reached the same mark in fewer than half that number.
More than a week after Hitler's death, and following the tardy radio announcement at 7.40 the previous evening, two days of celebration and good cheer were at last under way.
Whether in articulating his health care bottom line, or closing Guantánamo Bay, or moving forward on repealing "don't ask, don't tell," he has often seemed tardy or unfocused, at times missing deadlines he has set himself.
From the White House's faux "town hall meetings" to the hiring of Armstrong Williams to shill for its policies in journalistic forums, this administration has been a master of erecting propagandistic virtual realities that the news media have often been either tardy or ineffectual at unmasking.
