Word: waited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Birtwell worked through the Penn order with the impatience of a man who had to wait out a marathon three-hour, 30-minute opener before getting on the bump...
That said, I called Micron and waited 45 minutes for the privilege of paying for help. I finally hung up in exasperation. Next night, same thing. The third night, I got someone right away. It was the help-line maitre d'. The wait, he said, "might be as long as an hour." It was two. "Is this some kind of record?" I exploded when at last a support guy answered. "Nope," he said with a chuckle. Two hours later, after taking me on a hellish tour of "msconfig"--an apparently pointless Windows 98 diagnostic tool--he admitted he couldn...
...wait for the first human infant to be produced, in secret, by a Richard Seed or his offshore equivalent? Ian Wilmut, the soft-spoken scientist who started this noisy revolution, says no. The father of three (one of them adopted), he speaks passionately of honoring the individuality of the child. Human cloning, he says, should be banned...
Radio was right; vanity was wrong. This was not some breakthrough in carbuncle research but hot news that couldn't wait one more minute. Within the brotherhood of researchers, however, Salk had sinned unforgivably by not saluting either Enders or, more seriously, his colleagues at the Pittsburgh lab. Everything he did after that was taken as showboating--when he opened the Salk Institute, a superlab in La Jolla, Calif., for the world's scientists to retreat to and bask in, and even when not long before his death in 1995, he started a search for an AIDS vaccine...
...many in America, the war in Kosovo seems like another chapter in the never ending litany of horrors that emerge from that corner of Europe. My first response to my friend's decision to leave Hungary was to advise her to stay another day, to wait things out, to see what happened. Things would be all right, as they always have been. "My parents are from South America," she told me. "They know what it's like to live in an unstable country." And, indeed what can I know about the situation, speaking even fewer words of Hungarian than...