This approach has all the hallmarks of a disaster waiting for space in a GP's surgery near you.
For the people Alex Heard has been talking to across the United States for roughly the past decade, the dawn of the 21st century involves waiting for enlightened space travellers, stockpiling food and ammunition for an environmental Armageddon or preserving severed human heads for the day when all disease can be cured.
But sitting here beside this girl as unknown to him now as outer space, waiting for whatever she might say to unfreeze him, now he felt like he could see the edge or outline of what a real vision of Hell might be.
She said doctors were having discussion about patients in front of other people in the waiting room because of a lack of space elsewhere and were simply run off their feet.
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Holding that inventory is expensive in terms of space and cash sunk into materials waiting to become merchandise.
In London, at least, the price of prime office space is edging up, mostly because potential sellers are waiting for it to rise further.
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The cavernous space is dotted with lots of little tables covered in white cloths, waiting for their contents to be announced.
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Mike Blair sensed where the space was and the scrum-half zipped the ball right where Cairns was waiting to race over.
Cameramen threw elbows for more space and local TV reporters leaned out over the ropes with their microphones, waiting for the first iPhone customers.
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And there is no waiting around, nor any risk of being lost in transit and trapped horribly in sub-space limbo.
The first American in space, Alan Shepard, actually had no choice but to go in his suit while waiting on the launch pad.
While waiting for a campus, the school has been churning out 40 graduates a year with master's degrees in space studies.
It would be an understatement to say there's been a long build-up to the moment when Voyager 1 ventures into interstellar space: scientists thought the probe was on the edge back in 2010, and we've been waiting for the official milestone ever since.
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