Finally, you sit and wait--sometimes for hours--while a salesman calls headquarters to activate your phone.

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While talks of a Transformer 2 are still just gossamer promise, you can always snag that Eee Pad Slider while you sit and wait.

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So, you sit and wait.

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Now that people know that a depositor haircut is part of the European toolkit for dealing with banking problems, why would you sit around and wait for it to happen to you?

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As he puts it, 'It's the biggest pain in the ass - you can wait two hours to sit and the staff is hands-down the meanest - but it's most frequently giving you the perfect pizza.

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But judging by the way the company reacted to the 3D smartphone craze (which lasted about a day), you can bet that Apple will sit tight and wait to see how well this technology performs before investing any amount of money into producing its own flexible screen.

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