Life, it's been said, is what happens when you're waiting for something else.

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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.

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"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.

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