In the meantime, investors are left to guess whether they should sit and wait--or flee.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Finally, you sit and wait--sometimes for hours--while a salesman calls headquarters to activate your phone.

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As he puts it, 'It's the biggest pain in the ass - you can wait two hours to sit and the staff is hands-down the meanest - but it's most frequently giving you the perfect pizza.

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On the European side, it would be a mistake to sit back and wait for a sea-change in Tory attitudes once the party is in power.

ECONOMIST: Britain's European problem

It is almost as if it is so exasperated by the flaky achievements of its previous anti-deflationary efforts that it would rather sit back and wait for a recovery.

ECONOMIST: Deflation in Japan

We shall start immediately because it will be my joint top priorities together with getting the police and the sentencing system right, we shall start immediately, obviously we won't have places there for everybody in the first five minutes, nor will I sit back and wait until all the places are on-stream.

BBC: News Online

Often, too, kisha-club members, whose job is to sit and wait for titbits of information and want to justify their doing so, are loth to share stories with colleagues in their head offices.

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Mom and Pop investors wait some more, only to watch the market-index arrows continue to point up, and then continue to sit and wait, still worried they are missing their chance.

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There's nothing we can do - we can't hold back nature so we've just got to sit and wait.

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