• Millions of UK web surfers, meanwhile, are kept waiting for the day when free internet access is truly free.

    BBC: Unmetered web access in trouble

  • Back to deficits yet again, I keep waiting for the day when investors cut off the Great Federal Beast.

    FORBES: What Would Ben Franklin Say About An America In Decline?

  • Of course Middle East watchers will be anxiously waiting for the day after the resolution (either being passed or vetoed).

    BBC: What does Abbas hope to achieve with UN state bid?

  • But you can lose a lot of money waiting for the day.

    FORBES: Booby Prize

  • Delegating authority is an important attribute of a good leader until some delegate all their tasks and just idly sit in their office waiting for the day to end.

    FORBES: Can Petrobras Possibly Disappoint More?

  • But we were waiting for the day when Koryolink would begin offering mobile Internet, and hounded the Egyptians posted to North Korea from Orascom Telecom Media and Technology for news.

    NPR: Tweets, Pics Give Real-Time Peek Into North Korea

  • Yet like hundreds of families who might never know what became of their relatives who died during the storm and its aftermath, he and the rest of the Green family are waiting for the day they will be able to bury Joyce and Shenae.

    CNN: 'My momma's body is on the roof'

  • If I want the skinny on the details of a tech conference keynote, for instance, I can skim online resources live or just minutes after the fact instead of waiting for the next day's (or a late edition's) tech column.

    CNN: Why dirty up my hands with newsprint?

  • Queen's Hospital, Sidcup, has reduced waiting times for ovarian cancer test results by 72 hours by transporting specimens straight to the laboratory following theatre rather than waiting for collection the next day.

    BBC: Cancer waiting times cut

  • Brad remembered those boys as sly and noisy, waiting in blazers for the day-school bus at the end of the road, just outside the tumbled-down fieldstone wall.

    NEWYORKER: Outage

  • Outside the shop, Ismail Abu Ali(ph) sits on the curb waiting for someone to drive by and hire him for the day as a laborer.

    NPR: Baghdad Awaits Bush Speech on Iraq Policy

  • We are sitting in the chipper one day, waiting for Billy to get off the phone to his mother she is in for maybe her third chemo session, and he is outside the plate-glass window trying to get good reception and his face looks so difficult, so old and childish at the same time, that the sight of him is like a pain for each of us.

    NEWYORKER: Natalie

  • On New Year's Eve, the family had gathered at the Sundeck restaurant on top of the mountain in Aspen, fame's playground, waiting for the slopes to clear at the end of the day so they could have the hill to themselves to continue the annual family downhill football game.

    CNN: Tragedy Strikes Again

  • She had passed the day waiting for an apology from Ilsa Brooks, with whom she had had a falling out after arguing over a movie they had seen together on a recent Sunday afternoon.

    NEWYORKER: The Valetudinarian

  • One of the earlier attacks, involving two improvised explosive devices and a car bomb, targeted day laborers waiting for work at the busy Alawi transportation terminal in central Baghdad.

    WSJ: Explosions Rock Baghdad

  • According to the Tokyo government's own statistics there are 20, 000 children in the city waiting for places in day-care centres.

    BBC: Japan: The worst developed country for working mothers?

  • While waiting for their day in court, the Mandans note that many Native Americans continue to lose their ranches and farms to government foreclosures.

    NPR: Native American Farmers Allege Loan Bias

  • At TopRank video, Abdul admits he was a bit overwhelmed the day he received the money he had been waiting for so long.

    BBC: In the black: Credit revolution in Kenya

  • That raises the issue of which employees should be included for purposes of the waiting period and how the 90-day limitation should be calculated.

    FORBES: IRS Asks for Input on Health Care Law

  • This is about where all these doctors, these nurses, these health care professionals wake up everyday, happy to go to work because they think they're going to be able to do their job or they're waiting for the other shoe to fall every single day because somebody's trying to strangle their ability to make these decisions.

    CNN: Transcript: Clinton speaks on patients' bill of rights

  • Drive past a crossroads early in the morning, and you will see Afghan day-labourers sitting on the kerb, waiting for bosses with pick-up trucks who will set them to work shelling pistachios or humping carpets.

    ECONOMIST: Afghan refugees

  • "On more than one occasion during the day, he began celebrating a prospective dismissal rather than appealing and waiting for the decision to be made, thereby not showing due respect for the role of the umpire, " said Hurst.

    BBC: Panesar fined for over-appealing

  • Once Democrats lost the vote on the amendment that shortened the waiting period for instant background checks at gun shows from three days to one day, they voted against the underlying gun control bill.

    CNN: White House plans political offensive on gun issues

  • When the bacchanalia of Super Bowl media day began, Alex Smith was waiting for a Sirius XM radio producer to cue him for the start of an interview.

    WSJ: Is the Jets' Salvation on the Super Bowl Sideline?

  • For the people Alex Heard has been talking to across the United States for roughly the past decade, the dawn of the 21st century involves waiting for enlightened space travellers, stockpiling food and ammunition for an environmental Armageddon or preserving severed human heads for the day when all disease can be cured.

    ECONOMIST: The other millennium bug

  • Simply waiting a day would be tough for holiday travelers since the trains are often fully booked for days on end.

    WSJ: Public-Sector Strikes Hit European Holiday Travel

  • We spent a lot of time waiting to be delivered or collected, for the school day to end or the night to be over.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'The Importance of Music to Girls'

  • Investors are also waiting for the Federal Reserve, which will begin a two-day policy setting meeting on Tuesday, with a statement to be released on Wednesday.

    WSJ: S&P 500 Closes at a Record

  • "Sometimes, I close my eyes and all I can remember is that awful day waiting at the Sandy Hook Volunteer Firehouse for the boy who would never come home the same firehouse that was home to Ben's Tiger Scout Den 6, " Francine Wheeler said.

    NPR: In White House, Newtown Mom Pleads For Gun Control

  • And also, to cut down on the amount of idling, and wherever possible not to have big block engines just running during the day for no other reason than somebody sitting waiting to pick somebody up or drop somebody off.

    FORBES: Doddle Of The Dead - Putting The App In Zombie Apocalypse, Part 2

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