Both have been sitting around collecting dust, waiting for something to come along and make them relevant again.
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"We've been waiting for something like this for a long time, " said Feinman, referring to the jobs increase.
"They're always waiting for something to happen with their phones, " Dale notes wryly.
Life, it's been said, is what happens when you're waiting for something else.
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Either people are waiting for something, or maybe they are just too scared.
Think of it: 85 percent of your computing cycles go to waste because the servers are waiting for something to do.
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He wrote breathless torrents of psychedelic imagery like "Waiting For Something" (audio) and surrounded them with violins and mellotrons as well as guitars.
"I was waiting for something to happen, something to go wrong - that's what it has been like for three and a half years, " he said.
If, as I believe, the world's problems are structural, then we have to deal with them by major surgery, not by waiting for something to change.
Those who have been waiting for something else to take its place, the way Facebook siphoned off the population of MySpace about five years ago, are still waiting.
More than athletes in any other sport, baseball players spend an inordinate amount of time standing around doing nothing and just waiting for something to break the monotony.
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Clarisse, as though waiting for something, stood in the background.
"It's like we were waiting for something like this to happen, " said Marc Batchelor, a South African soccer player who socialized with Pistorius in South Africa's glamor and sports circles.
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Then a burst of fellow feeling would come over me, for I knew how difficult it was, waiting for something better, waiting for something that was never going to happen.
The Aussies were waiting for something to happen and it came when Johnson finally bowled a straight ball at Cook which the left-hander missed, giving umpire Billy Doctrove an easy lbw decision.
Whenever Eva was alone in the house, they would make themselves known, not quite present but there all the same, and it always seemed to her that they were waiting for something.
Sit among a group of opera buffs and you're likely to come away with the impression that they're waiting for something to go wrong, and that they might even be pleased if it did.
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"Some players are walking around waiting for something to happen, but Jurgen's message is that it's up to you which type of professional you want to be, " says Kyle Beckerman, a midfielder who has made 23 appearances with the national team.
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He's just sitting and he's waiting now for something to happen?
What everyone has been waiting for is something as rare as a simultaneous eclipse of the sun and the moon: a time when the four Beatles (and their widows), both Apple companies and EMI are all on the same side.
Men have fallen into comas while waiting for Sidebottom to say something interesting, but where Nel goes, fun and frolics surely follow.
But Mars, more often than not, has something waiting for us.
"There are tons of people watching like a hawk, waiting for the candidates to say something particularly funny, " he says.
"We've developed a national paralysis that's driven by all of us waiting for someone else to do something, " Bill Simon, president and CEO of Wal-Mart's U.S. business, said Tuesday at an annual retail industry convention in New York.
"I had found lion research to be much less exciting than I'd expected - hours and hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer boredom, waiting for the lazy beasts to do something, " he said.
I'm talking about hope as that spirit inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better is waiting for us if we're willing to work for it and fight for it.
In case you missed it, reader Patrick Purcell suggested something you could do while waiting for a stable version of Windows NT 5.0 to ship: Stand at the New York Harbor and watch continental drift cause the coast of France to come crashing in.
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You don't have to sit here waiting, and you know, waiting for the Web page to get - convert into something that the cell phone speaks.
Still waiting for all those alleged iPad mini leaks to culminate into something official?
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