Word: waited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nine years as Textron chairman, the lingering doubts about his firm preclude the possibility of confirmation until the details are clear. The Carter administration should therefore drop Miller as its nominee. Clearly, there are other qualified persons to head the Fed, and six months is too long to wait in the face of mounting economic strain...
After Mejias gathered the first touch on a high lunge which Cooper parried too late the Brandeis fencers stood at the side advising their teammate to "relax, wait, bide your time," in an effort to run out the clock...
...backers, Ali apprenticed under Trainer Angelo Dundee, a skilled groomer of fighters. Dundee recalls: "The Louisville group wanted me to train him. I told them to send him down to Miami after Christmas. Twenty minutes later, I get a call telling me Ali wasn't waiting till after Christmas, he was coming right away. They told me he said, 'I don't want to wait for Christmas. I want to fight.' That's how it all started in October...
...School's tentative tuition proposals are already before the Corporation, but its final proposal will wait until the school's administration has conferred with faculty and students, O'Brien said...
...growing differences between Teach and Donny, mostly concerning Bobby, but also inspired by Teach's self-assured abrasiveness. But nothing really happens until the end of the second act. Instead, Mamet gives us his version of Becket, perhaps entitled "En Attendant Fletcher." The act limps by as the characters wait for the arrival of their accomplice, and the tensions between them continue to build. Mamet, it seems, wanted to show the ultimate powerlessness and futility of his characters, like Vladimir and Estragon in Waiting for Godot, but without the existential mantle that cloaks Becket's fine work and gives...