The alternative, she said, was that a victim rang a bell at the reception desk of their local police station, and had to "say in an open waiting room, 'I've been raped'".
Sometimes I just went home and showered, then sat by a half-open window waiting for the night, Marie out on the town with Stan, my parents on back shift at the works or sitting downstairs watching game shows.
Businesses were asked not to open, and people waiting at bus and subway stops were told to go home.
Ultimately, waiting to open a secured credit card is the best plan for any consumer looking to improve credit standing.
Readers are already waiting with wallets open, begging to give Gaiman their money.
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Waiting too long can open the door to an estate battle.
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Foreigners are waiting for Japan to open the market for corporate control by honouring its promise that they will, in effect, be able to issue shares to finance a takeover.
"I've just been ticking over waiting for a door to open, " said Harrison, 37.
They were the ones hugging strangers they had met while waiting for the doors to open.
If you have a robot that needs a makeover, just open the door, Studio9732 will be waiting.
Millions of people are milling about in shopping mall parking lots waiting for the stores to open.
We imagine ourselves surrounding the tilted spaceship, waiting for the door to open.
International firms will have to sit tight for the time being, like expectant children waiting for Disney World to open.
If you visit the Staverton surgery in North West London any Saturday you will see there is a queue waiting for the doors to open at 10am.
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At the Revolution elementary school near the heart of Mexico City, Martha Rojas Ramos was near the front of the line, waiting for the polls to open Sunday morning.
They were clearly up for baseball after a tough winter, at least among the true loyalists that were lined up two hours before game time waiting for the gates to open.
Allowed to walk in from the right circle, Vanek held the puck waiting for a hole to open up and then snapped a shot, which Pavelec snagged with a quick wave of his glove.
In this way, guildies can share their war stories while waiting for their home world to open up and let them in.
We believe that moving quickly to negotiate and conclude our proposed merger is in the best interests of Take-Two and EA. Waiting for a later date leaves open significant uncertainty regarding the timing, the probability and the value of a potential transaction, and is not in the best interests of either company or Take-Two's stockholders.
The E-Verify program will even open more jobs to the 22 million people who are waiting.
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Waiting in the wings are any number of open-source smartphones based on the nifty Linux operating system.
But the means of ensuring that they are met will be thrown open: private hospitals will treat patients who have been waiting too long for treatment, and tutors will give remedial classes to failing schoolchildren.
What is perhaps most striking about the U.N. job is not even how promptly it materialized, nor that the United States Ambassador was so personally involved in hiring a young woman with precious little job experience, but that Ambassador Richardson held the specially crafted sinecure open for two months while the former intern kept him waiting on her decision.
This year nearly 72% of consumers indicated they were waiting till the end of August just before schools open to shop.
Whatever your means of achieving happiness, I do think unhappiness in all its various forms lurks around every corner, hiding out, waiting for us to fall into its ever-open jaws.
The 13-year-old dramatically collapsed onto the floor after she learned she would be heading home -- or into the open arms of benevolent Mr. Hollywood, who is apparently waiting in the wings on line two.
In fact, some polling places were kept open two hours after their scheduled closing because of lines of voters waiting for ballots.
Instead of waiting for possibly more government intervention to force vendors to open up their silos of patient information, they formed the CommonWell Health Alliance to do it themselves.
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