And it is only by protecting intellectual property that we will see the next great advances for the patients who are waiting--waiting for treatments for Alzheimer's disease, treatments for deadly cancers, for diabetes.
How many minutes a day do Americans spend waiting--for an elevator, a web page, a customer service rep, a delivery person, a free cashier.
The Syrians have long used the camps as a sort of strategic waiting-room for groups that might come in handy as future allies or fall-guys.
Makers of wind turbines and solar panels still have long waiting-lists for their wares, so a slowdown is not as alarming as it sounds, Mr Liebreich points out.
Ms. Peters, who lobbied for stricter gun laws in Australia, credits their newly established 28-day waiting period for a firearm purchase and a ban on semi-automatic weapons for a 50% reduction in homicide and suicide rates.
Given that many consumers expected the iPhone 5 to be unveiled last year, the market has been waiting for twenty-seven months for this new iPhone.
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Two members of his security detail -- already waiting outside for the mayor -- noticed flames coming out of a second-story window of the neighbor's home and called fire dispatch before banging on the door to alert the home's occupants.
Pogue found himself longing for the days of dial-up, while waiting 1-2 minutes for popular sites to load, and while WiFi was quick to save the day in many instances, that's hardly an excuse in the year 2007.
What the Oregon scientists have done is to deliver the baby that the would-be human cloners have been waiting for 15 years -- what looks like a reliable technique for creating cloned embryos.
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The funds transfer group can see transactions in real-time through a Splunk dashboard rather than waiting for next-day reports.
Clinton wants to expand gun-show background checks to include a 72-hour waiting period for those gun buyers whose criminal or mental-health records aren't immediately available.
"They are obviously very distraught at the moment and are really just waiting for news - it's a very distressing time for them, " he told BBC News.
NHS. First, it is likely to boost hospital activity, which is vital if the government is to meet its new target for cutting the maximum all-in waiting time for an elective operation to 18 weeks by 2008.
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Some European officials have told me we are now entering the most dangerous period - waiting for the reforms to deliver.
What are we waiting for--especially now, when the rest of the world, including India and China, is determined to catch up with us?
This isn't quite the BlackBerry earnings story you're waiting for -- after all, the US figures covering the success (or otherwise) of the Z10 won't arrive until the next quarter.
Anyone who's had to recharge an EV -- or, for that matter, any mobile device with a very big battery -- knows the pain of waiting for hours while a lithium-ion pack tops up.
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Either way, you send a thank you note and check your inbox compulsively for a week, waiting not-so-patiently for some sort of response.
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I've been waiting for years for this so-called career defining fight against Jeff Lacy.
Eriksson's aim is to keep his successor Steve McClaren waiting for as long as possible - for seven more matches by taking England to the final and bringing the trophy home.
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This is the one fans have been waiting for, literally for years -- 56 previously unissued cuts (plus 10 hard-to-find B sides) that Springsteen, in his pathological perfectionism, never included on his official albums.
Perhaps we sound ungrateful, but this sort of acceleration for Flash -- the internet's most popular multimedia delivery method -- is long overdue, and we're not overly impressed with the idea of waiting until mid-2010 for it to happen.
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The Los Angeles County coroner is waiting for toxicology test results -- not due for at least another week -- before determining what killed Jackson last month.
For long-term investors still waiting for the company to sell more subscriptions to wireless phones and satellite radio, it's probably a different story.
Drive past a crossroads early in the morning, and you will see Afghan day-labourers sitting on the kerb, waiting for bosses with pick-up trucks who will set them to work shelling pistachios or humping carpets.
That means waiting for more Android-based smartphones, which are the most important devices for Android, but the Movit will likely attract many applications that wouldn't pass muster in Apple's App Store either because they conflict with Apple revenue streams, they operate best in the background, or other reasons.
They also say that the pressure to meet national targets set by ministers - for example on reducing waiting times - is proving costly.
The drive to cut waiting lists for cataract surgery continues - with maximum waiting times to be reduced from the current target of six months to four.
Those figures include sales from duty- and tax-free stores in three other airports in the country and the duty-free shopping complex in the middle of Bangkok being constructed as a complement to the new airport space (where, without an impending flight or carry-on baggage, shoppers can spend more relaxed time buying duty-free goods, which King Power will have waiting for them at check-in).
For years now, economists - not to mention the rest of us - have been waiting for the news that we got this week.
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