For example, let's say a star salesperson is running roughshod over co-workers by communicating curtly, expecting them to stay until midnight to finish tasks that could waituntil the next day, etc.
From bailouts for the car industry to a financial summit next weekend, there are a lot of decisions with long-term consequences that might not be able to waituntil Inauguration Day.
While Mr. Roy, a Wall Street analyst, can no doubt afford that hot new piece of technology on day one of release, most Americans have to waituntil the manufacturer has amortized enough of its costs to lower the price or, alternatively, settle for something they can more easily afford or for nothing at all.