Word: biding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Obama era, it is now clear, began on Election Day and will not wait. Like his presidential campaign, his transition is proving to be historic. Unwilling to bide his time until President Bush packs up his things and leaves town, Obama simply took control of economic policy on Nov. 23, when he unveiled an economic team noted for its brains and experience and asked it to come up with a massive economic-stimulus plan, in the hopes of rushing it through Congress and readying it for him to sign by the time he is sworn in. The next...
...about America but cool toward President George W. Bush. Neither gets emotional over the idea of European unity, preferring to see what works - and what doesn't. Their natures, too, are similar: both are impatient, often short-tempered and, say their critics, sometimes authoritarian. Yet both have had to bide their time and, to their evident frustration, wait their turn to assume power...
...militias and death squads tearing the country apart. But Baker reportedly opposed that proposal, stressing, among other factors, a common refrain of President Bush's: as David Sanger summed it up in The New York Times, "any firm deadline would be an invitation to insurgents and sectarian groups to bide their time until the last Americans were withdrawn, then seek to overthrow the government." And so the timetable idea was dropped...
...that U.S. forces would decide to observe some kind of cease-fire as well. Baker knows as well as anyone that U.S. forces will be carrying out combat operations right up until the day they leave Iraq - and almost surely for years after that. The insurgents may try to "bide their time," but it's highly unlikely the U.S. military would afford them that luxury...
Yelp's founders aren't in a hurry. To build team spirit, they spent last Thursday with the staff--playing croquet, followed by a cable-car ride and a nocturnal pub crawl--happy to bide their time...