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...month grace period in which you don't have to pay anything, you have to time things carefully. Consolidating early can bring your respite to an early end. But acting before it expires can save you more than a half of a percentage point in repayment. So bide your time. Then pounce. --With reporting by Cybele Weisser
...mutation of al-Qaeda?s approach in Europe wouldn?t have to happen fast. In fact, security experts in Europe and Israel have suggested that, given the military pressure in Afghanistan and the police surveillance in the West, al-Qaeda might well want to bide its time for the next couple of months before launching another dramatic attack. Quiescence is no cause for relief. The history of Islamic terrorism may be short, but it has already established a pace of deadening patience...
...smart enough to ingratiate himself and his trusted companions into the right work duty on the right day. "Guards are creatures of habit," says Richard Coons, the forensic psychologist who evaluated Rivas during his 1994 trial for kidnapping and robbery. With someone like Rivas, who is "able to bide his time and watch," such habits proved disastrous...
...right now, it may be more difficult for Likud to rally a majority behind a man many Israelis fear will be more inclined to inflame Palestinian and Arab rage. But the only certainty in the outcome is that it will produce another unstable government. Bibi may just decide to bide his time for the next election, which may not be all that long in coming...
Sometimes it flies, sometimes it crawls, but it always passes inexorably. We mark it, save it, waste it, bide it, race against it. We measure it incessantly, with a passion for precision that borders on the obsessive. Time is so vitally enmeshed with the fabric of our existence, in fact, that it's hard even to conceive of it as an independent entity--and when we try, the result is less than enlightening. Pondering the mystery of what time really is, St. Augustine wrote in his Confessions, "If no one asks me, I know; but if any person should require...