They all started off with meeting a nice, polite gentleman and finished off - as I nearly did, twice - dead, because they believed he was a nice person until their time came to be his prisoner.
Local managers were allowed to do their own thing operationally until it was time for their companies to become chips and be traded in for something new, always in the name of increasing shareholder value.
Most of all, though, the Democrats are biding their time until Mr Bush leaves the stage.
They may bide their time until the middle of next year when the interim cabinet is due to be replaced by one chosen by an elected parliament.
Apple wants to own a generation of post-PC world users and block out their competitors until such time as they can present a higher-quality user experience than Apple.
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Other expatriate families cancelled vacations and flew directly to the U.S., Australia, or Europe, and are biding their time until school opens again (some administrators and teachers have also returned to home countries).
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Mr Simsek has drawn up medium-term fiscal rules that aim to bring the budget deficit back below 3% of GDP within the next two years, but the finance ministry has delayed their implementation until some time next year after the election.
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In the judgement of Rakoff, not only does he disagree with the absolute value set by the use of FSG, but he is also known for giving credit, a lesser prison term, to those like Gupta who have shown that they have lived an honorable life up until the time of their offense.
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Most people save their practice time until the night before a presentation and it shows.
Slowly they increased their time, until she was running and he had walked off almost 150 pounds.
They promised them a car, an apartment, a dacha, aid for their families until the end of time.
Before that, the team worked without pay, volunteering their time for a year until the game was close enough to justify a Kickstarter drive.
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So readers there are getting something extra to tide them over until the next copy of TIME hits their mailboxes the week after next: our Young Japan report is a double issue in Japan, with additional stories on the subject.
After determining the initial sex ratios of a series of clutches, the researchers added or subtracted chicks to increase or decrease the father's workload (a standard trick in avian ecology, made possible by the fact that parents do not recognise their own young until close to the time at which they leave the nest).
But you may want to withhold your third cheer for their new strategy until it becomes clear whether the policy guardrails are strong enough this time to keep their hopes from tumbling down.
My colleagues and I didn't have the time to hold their hands until they gained it.
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During the wet season, from November until May, the chimpanzees spend much of their time in the trees and can be difficult to find.
This couple did not meet until their mid-30s, and by the time they went for treatment on the NHS, at 40 the patient was deemed too old to qualify by her local health board.
But with moments remaining until the half-time whistle, Cardiff broke their hosts' resistance to equalise.
England survived in comfort until half-time, and should have doubled their advantage four minutes after the interval.
Even the best manager will face limitations for the time being, until they go to their new ground.
By contrast, their children are typically having to wait nearly ten years longer, until their mid-30s, to become first-time buyers and are then likely to be stuck with mortgage debt for most of their (longer) working lives.
First, consumers are using their devices from the time they wake up until the time they go to sleep.
Financials have not been leadership in quite some time, so steer clear until they make their move and establish some street cred.
The Family Nurse partnership scheme sees nurses or midwives regularly visit first-time mothers under the age of 20 until their baby is two years old.
After several lengthy ties, Nadal and Lopez did not begin their match on Arthur Ashe Stadium until after 11pm local time, but the world number one was in no mood to hang around.
They signed 47 application and disclosure documents, affectionately known as the mortgage application package, pinky-swearing that everything they told us was true and pledging their eternal loyalty until the loan is paid back on time, in full!
I'll mimic their eating habits, gestures and pastimes until it's time to go back to my hotel.
For those societies that decide to fight this organizational discovery, their economies and their workforces are going to have a hard time until they do embrace it.
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On the other hand, teens who are "late bloomers" can have minimal height changes until they have a larger growth spurt around the time of their relatively late puberty.
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