Word: waiting
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...shouldn’t wait until there’s a law school application, because it starts in preschool,” she said...
...mixture of past compositional techniques with contemporary twelve-tone techniques. Although “The Forbidden” was originally commissioned for 2006, the work was pushed back to this year, and as James Levine pointed out in his program notes, the piece was well worth the wait. With clear melodic lines—as well as juxtapositions of rhythms between sections of the orchestra that created the lopsided sound of hemiolas—the piece makes a direct connection to the emotion of Tchaikovsky’s work, while still sounding new and intriguing. The final chord...
...change in his preferences. In those moments, close observers knew, Powell was laying the predicate for a possible Democratic endorsement later in the year. As fall approached, Powell began to prepare his endorsement. He had long eyed late October as the best moment to strike, as he wanted to wait until the debates were over before offering his considered assessment...
...deceased's property; with the British property market in free fall, the NAFD says families are opting for less opulent burial services. The reduction of earnings leads to cash shortages among undertakers, which means that many of them require loans to cover the expenses of welfare funerals as they wait for the government payment to come through. With credit dried up, the terms for these loans are becoming increasingly punitive, if they can be found...
...crisis (which forced health officials to consider mass burials at sea). But Britain's undertakers have offered a corporeal reminder of how financial crises can infringe in intimate ways. "We are the forth richest country in the world," MP Kawczynski says. "The idea that you would have to wait two months to bury someone close to you is despicable...