Word: waits
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...government running at least past the presidential primaries and hope that some extra money falls from the skies by next January, after economists have recalculated the surplus. And in the meantime, through the messy magic of democracy, the public actually gets what it wants: the President has to wait for new spending; the Republicans have to put off their tax cuts; and as the months roll by, any surplus that actually materializes goes into paying down the debt. It's enough to make the title "The Do-Nothing Congress" a badge of honor...
...that again. Not another midlife crisis, with its subcurrents of suppressed violence and repressed sexual longing. Not another tale in which we wait patiently or impatiently--depending on our tolerance for cultural cliches--for the cathartic, concluding burst of morally instructive gunfire...
...Harvard and Radcliffe prepare to sign a final merger document this month, leaders of the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association (RCAA) are taking a "wait and see" approach to the deal, which omits any mention of the alumnae organization...
...Dinu and Tsoukaldis--who will have to wait until next spring to receive their diplomas if their suit fails--claim the checks they received were simply compensation for work they performed...
...lesbian activists are taking a wait-and-see attitude over the candidates' positions. "This constituency is sophisticated enough to know that campaign pledges often don?t bear fruit," says TIME political correspondent Eric Pooley. Gore watched Clinton?s gay-rights campaign rhetoric capture the gay vote in 1992, and then saw the President?s inclusive military initiative drowned by the protests from the Pentagon and Congress, resulting in the wishy-washy "don't ask, don't tell." It?s also unclear whether President Gore or President Bradley would have the clout to get homosexual-rights laws passed. "Both men would...