Word: waits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...emphasized the difficulty in predicting the impact of what, he said, is at most a psychological development. "We'll have to wait and see," he added...
...perfectly ironic that this writer, having emigrated from America to England as a young man and spent his last 40 years there as an expatriate, should have had to wait so long for an honor accorded to so many who came long after him (W.H. Auden and T.S.Eliot, to name but two), largely because his popularity had declined before he had, a circumstance that occurred mainly as a result of his later novels, featuring what one critic described as "this very complex style . . . really quite tough going, with very long sentences," exemplified in books such as The Ambassadors, The Golden...
Equipment is antiquated and erratic. Phones ring but the connection is dead. At other times three or four simultaneous conversations become scrambled on the same line. Fewer than 60% of all calls go through the first time they are dialed, and callers must often wait three seconds or more between tries for a dial tone...
Brimmer had been dealing with the demand for his consulting services on a part-time basis following his resignation from the Federal Reserve Board in August, 1974. Under the Federal Reserve Act, a member of the board who resigns before the expiration of the appointed term must wait two years before he or she can perform consultation duties connected with member banks and other financial institutions...
...Mercedes, or 11.4% of total output. After one year, employees are free to resell their cars on the open market. These days they often get 10% more than they paid-and then turn around and buy another. Workers with ten years' seniority do not even have to wait for their new models...