He apparently wanted to wait until GM could command a better share price and then have the company go fully public at once instead of in several installments as per the current plan.

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We were instructed to make the dogs wait until their pails were filled, then command them to eat.

WSJ: Learning to Dog Sled in Bavaria, Germany

But it might also help convince others in the Taliban's high command that it can no longer simply wait for the Afghan government to collapse once foreign front-line troops go home.

ECONOMIST: Afghanistan and the United States