Particularly tricky is paying manufacturers upfront when the company is waiting for payments from retailers.
Then excitement boiled into frustration when the plane sat waiting for an empty gate.
Life, it's been said, is what happens when you're waiting for something else.
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Let's just hope that our British friends are a little more dignified when it comes to waiting for consumer electronics than we are.
Labour's plan for the future of the NHS is in stark contrast to the Conservative record when some people were waiting 18 months for treatment.
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Customers can, for example, place their order online and have it waiting for them when they arrive.
The world will be waiting for her when she wakes up.
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These days less than one-fourth of newly minted grads have jobs waiting for them when they receive their sheepskins, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers.
In a story by Seth Lubove on page 62, Nicholas says he's going to dial up his Jacuzzi from a car phone and have a bath waiting for him when he gets home.
They were criticised for removing patients from the 18-week waiting list when they refused to travel to England for treatment, marking them as "unavailable for social reasons".
The health board was criticised for removing patients from the 18-week waiting list when they refused to travel to England for treatment, marking them as "unavailable for social reasons".
Millions of UK web surfers, meanwhile, are kept waiting for the day when free internet access is truly free.
When you had millions of people waiting for your book suggestions, that affect is still going to have power.
That's especially good news for late-night talk-show hosts, who should find an anxious audience waiting up for them when they return to the airwaves in early January.
For many, it will only the first of a number of nights spent anxiously waiting for news of when they can return to what is left of their homes.
Now if you cannot be bothered with the song and dance of sitting at a table, waiting for your order when you are dying to slump in front of CNN in the comfort of your hotel room.
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His in-laws "thought it was magic, " says Mr. Talbot, who adds that he typically burns through his monthly allowance by calling for rides after late nights at the office when he "doesn't feel like waiting on the corner for 15 minutes" for a taxi.
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But his parents don't know if there will be many, or any, coal mining jobs waiting for him in Hopedale when he's old enough.
And in the long run it is costing the NHS health service more money when some people contract other illnesses while waiting for treatment.
One young woman had been waiting for three hours and when she finally was able to retrieve her car the staff mistakenly switched her BMW with an Infiniti.
Wired, a Californian magazine favoured by technobohos, got dragged into the web when readers in Singapore, tired of waiting for the latest issue, created their own web-linked version of the magazine.
The BBC's Sarah Grainger in Caracas says it appears that prisoners who had heard about the search in advance from news reports were waiting for the National Guard when they arrived.
But investors' cold feet also might have something to do with what behavioral economists call the "disjunction effect, " the idea that people don't think one step ahead when making decisions because they're waiting for more information.
As you know, Kemba was waiting for you -- when you were up in the air, he was down on the ground, because -- unfortunately, he actually was up in the air stuck at LaGuardia Airport for three hours.
Cole had been on what she called "a very long list" of people waiting for an organ donation when she got word recently that OneLegacy, an organ procurement agency in Southern California, had a kidney that was a biological match.
My Warbeast parts should be waiting for me in the office when I return from the holiday break.
Some 800 soldiers, sailors and airmen were waiting for a screening of Skyfall when the 007 star arrived.
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The moment Old Trafford had been waiting for arrived after 65 minutes when Ferguson unleashed Ronaldo - and the effect was instant.
But I missed my family, and when I came back, my place was waiting for me in the Djemaa el-Fna.
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