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.
The spokesman said that the government's investment plans would ease the situation - with the result that by 2004, no-one should have to wait longer than four hours in accident and emergency from their time of arrival to either admission, transfer or discharge.
With a no-booking policy, a long wait is inevitable, but it is worth it.
And he promised by 2008 no-one in England would have to wait longer than 18 weeks from seeing their GP to having their operation.
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So when I see a compression on a wild swinging stock I consider it a no-brainer trade to simple watch and wait for the big move to begin.
"There is no evidence basis for the two-week wait policy but it is well known that delaying treatment or delaying diagnosis for those not referred urgently can cost lives".
This might leave the employer a bit short-staffed, but if someone has to wait four minutes longer for a burger and fries, no-one gets hurt.
Hearts, lungs, kidneys, livers - transplant candidates would no longer need to wait for a donor organ.
Pakistan has so far refused to open the border, forcing refugees to wait in a 200-metre strip of no-man's-land between the two countries.
The main advantage of using genetic markers is that it speeds up old-fashioned breeding methods, because you no longer have to wait for the tree to grow up to see if it has the desired traits.
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Yes, they claim to have a new operating system and things like one-swipe email access from any app, but time and technology wait for no man.
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No one could wait for Google to release its own Google Maps app to replace the Apple-built one Apple had cast aside.
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We'll just have to wait and see how this one plays out -- there's still no official word from either agency on what's happening, and the timeline of any potential investigation and lawsuit will be measured in months and years.
Ever since July, when Secretary Vilsack stopped -- visited here, he has not stopped talking -- (laughter) -- about his visit here to Pennsylvania. (Applause.) No, really, I mean -- and when I heard about it I couldn't wait to get here.
Jobs didn't often pick up the phone to go back and forth with customers, but at least one Apple customer, Scott Steckley, recalls a time when an e-mail to Jobs, explaining how there seemed to be no end in sight to his wait for a computer repair, was met with a phone call.
If you wanted more proof that time and technology wait for no man, check out the newest kid on the digital block: the mirror-less camera.
No one would really blame those in the glass-is-half-full camp if they decided to take a wait-and-see approach to this market.
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