Word: waits
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...example, Aczel explains that if a bus arrives at a bus stop, on average, every 10 minutes, and you arrive at the bus stop at a random time, you will, on average have to wait more than five minutes for the bus. This is because if you arrive randomly, you are more likely to arrive during a long interval between buses than you are to arrive during a short interval between buses due to the fact that there are more total minutes in the long intervals than there are in the short intervals. The problem comes when Aczel extends this...
Girl: Yes! He called me! She can't wait until Sunday when all her work will be done. I have been waiting to go out with him forever. I wish he had called on a different night though, I have so much to do tonight...oh well...Sunday should be fun. Signal: She likes him (remember, this is Harvard...
pret aller: (adj.) a French phrase meaning "ready to go." "Hold on, wait for me to get my fishnets and stilettos on and I'll be pret aller...
WASHINGTON: Call it the Arlen Specter solution. As the impeachment process begins to collapse for want of GOP support, the Republican senator (and former prosecutor) from Pennsylvania is trying to convince his colleagues that presidential punishment, like revenge, is a dish best served cold. Specter's plan: Wait until Bill Clinton leaves office in 2001, then prosecute him as a regular citizen for perjury and obstruction of justice -? presuming, of course, that Clinton's successor does not pardon him first. If the GOP can just cool its heels, Specter says, a jail sentence for the President is "a distinct possibility...
...interest may push the U.S. to give early and give often: "When people have been left with nothing but the clothes on their backs, there's very little keeping them here," says Padgett. "If you think the U.S. has a problem with immigration from Central America right now, just wait until the refugees from Mitch start heading north." As Haiti and Cuba showed, nothing sways U.S. foreign policy faster than a sudden influx of tired, poor and huddled masses...