Mr Brett said they were concerned that the backlog could cause "health hazards", but they hoped to have enough resources by the end of the week to ensure that no-one had to wait for more than two weeks to have their bin collected.

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For investors, it was bad enough that the action alone indicated the Fed believes the economy and threat of a global recession have become so alarming that it could wait no longer and had to fire off such a huge barrage of measures all at once, virtually emptying its arsenal of meaningful weapons.

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The Douala Stock Exchange in Cameroon had to wait three years for a debut offering, and no company could initially meet the Bulgaria Stock Exchange's requirements.

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In May, after a few months of sitting around and playing cards and whatnot, a juror decided she could no longer wait and sent a note saying she had to get back to Siberia.

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The minister added that it was not satisfactory that patients had to wait longer than they should for hospital treatment, but said that at no point was safety compromised.

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He said by by March 2011, no child would wait longer than 13 weeks for an assessment and he had already established a Regional Autistic Spectrum Disorder Network Group to promote the needs and aims of those with ASD.

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With no set schedules dictating the order of jobs, one group building coffee tables had to stop work and wait as the other team, making bookshelves, used the router tables they needed.

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