Police closed all the main roads and highways near Tahrir Square, and vehicles were not allowed to stop or wait near the square, state-run al-Ahram newspaper reported.

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If successive secretaries of state wait until there's an all-party consensus at Stormont on the need for an opposition, then they will wait a long time.

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Bank privatisation can wait until 2000, says Mr Zeman, even though state-owned banks are the main culprits in the mismanagement of Czech enterprise.

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After that, they will need to wait for several days - a period of reflection - before being able to state their final decision.

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Although Italian men must wait until 65 before they officially qualify for an old-age pension from the state, those who have got 35 years of contributions under their belts can retire and draw state pensions when they are 57.

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It notes that the State Department is exceeding the President's interview wait time goal - earlier this summer 85 percent of applicants worldwide were being interviewed for visas within three weeks of submitting their applications and currently the figure is up to 88 percent.

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Don't wait until January to mail in your next mortgage payment, and pre-pay the estimated state and local taxes for the first quarter, for instance.

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So he is not prepared to wait for the private sector to create jobs, but has embarked on an ambitious state job-creation scheme, which will recruit tens of thousands of young people to work in job centres, town halls, sports stadiums and the like.

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