Q. How can chronic tardiness affect a business?

The implication was obvious; the organization's clash with Sprewell over his chronic tardiness and failure to report his injury last training camp were the sticking issues.

His only troubles were chronic tardiness and absenteeism.

There was Monroe's chronic tardiness, which was accepted silently.

Then there was Monroe's chronic tardiness.

Every morning, he was up at 5:30 - hard to believe, considering his chronic tardiness to spring training - to begin his chores.

Although Cline and Dean became good friends, Clark (Dean's lead guitarist) was eventually fired by the singer for what was explained as his chronic tardiness.

Her chronic tardiness - sometimes stalling up to 45 minutes after the two had taken the stage - has been cited as another contributing factor to the breakup.

She explained her chronic tardiness by telling me that her mother won't allow her to go home, where her father is, at the end of the day.

The fruitless scream and a Blue Train in a hurry to make up for its chronic tardiness.