Word: waits
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...degrees. Your thighs are sticking together as you wait out your 90-minute un-air-conditioned lecture. Beads of sweat are oozing out of pores you didn't know existed...
...adopting a child from China was never simple. The state-run China Center for Adoption Affairs requires U.S. applicants to submit a long list of documents, including home studies completed by social workers and federal background checks. Fees and expenses can amount to upward of $20,000, and the wait can be long. China has a backlog of approved international applicants and is only now placing children into the homes of families who were approved for adoption more than three years ago. Some families that don't want to wait that long look to China's "waiting child" list...
...bank would lay off 50 employees by this summer, she didn't react by mailing out résumés or trying to ingratiate herself with her managers - she scheduled arthroscopic knee surgery. "I'm doing it now because I won't be able to if I wait and lose my job," says the 27-year-old, who, fearing questions from her employer, spoke with TIME on condition of anonymity. By going under the knife ahead of her potential job loss, Sophie can use the firm's supplementary health insurance to cover the $4,000 procedure. As she says...
...your ten-year-old ceramic piggy, only to find the bank’s empty? Maybe you spent a little too much on new spring clothes…or more realistically, on late-night coffee runs to Starbucks/JP Licks/7-11/Dunkin Donuts? Fail to get that summer internship at...wait, which banks are left? Was the only summer internship you got unpaid...
...find yourself obsessively cleaning your dorm room while humming “Dude Looks Like a Lady?” (wait for the 1:00 mark), try applying to work for Dorm Crew’s Spring Clean-Up. You can apply online at http://www.dormcrew.com/category/scu. While there is no deadline for submission, a representative at Dorm Crew said to apply as soon as possible because they have already received a lot of applications...