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In the case of health care, a national monopoly can forestall innovation and provide inadequate care with long waits.
In the meantime, China waits with open arms.
The world now waits to see if last year’s impressive domestic demand growth can be sustained, and if China can, in the words of Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, “give full play to the leading role of…consumer demand in driving economic growth.”
As Mircea Geoana, Romania's bright young Minister of Foreign Affairs, recently put it: "If the EU waits another seven or ten years before it opens up, the workers it will receive from my country will be the least qualified, peasants and individuals with low human capital: by then, the doctors, the architects and the engineers will all have migrated to the United States."
Moreover, the longer a woman waits to have children, the longer she can participate in the paid labor force, thereby boosting the economic health and prosperity of poor communities.
Another agent for change waits in the wings: European Monetary Union.
The Malleable Mr. MedvedevLONDON – As Dmitri Medvedev waits in the wings for his inauguration on May 7, the West is examining his every word, eager for the slightest sign that Russia’s new president will be more “reasonable” and easier to deal with than Vladimir Putin, the man who got him elected.
As the crew of the now-burdened rescue vessel waits for relief, they are forced to deal with restless passengers.
But while the world waits to see what he decides, his administration has issued a budget blueprint that is hardly in line with the spirit of the accord.
So strong is the resistance to such changes that the United Kingdom waits about 1,000 years before it regards a species, like the rabbit, as native.
The NBER, by contrast, typically waits a year or longer after the fact, until all the data are in, before announcing a turning point.
The reason the NBER waits so long before dating a trough or peak is so that it can be reasonably sure it won’t have to revise the call in the future.
Likewise, the Japanese government waits for a year or so before making such announcements.
For this reason, before dating a trough or peak, the NBER waits until it can be reasonably sure that it will not have to revise the call in the future, after the dates have already entered the official chronology.
And then the government waits for foreign investment to arrive.
And waits.
Look at the way he stops when I stop, and how he waits to see whether I'll continue."
Over the rapids, where in after years trim Bell Weir lock will stand, they have been forced or dragged by their sturdy rowers, and now are crowding up as near as they dare come to the great covered barges, which lie in readiness to bear King John to where the fateful Charter waits his signing.
As the black appeared on the threshold of the room, making a low reverence, which has been interpreted for some centuries into "dinner waits," Mr. Wharton, clad in a dress of drab, bedecked with enormous buttons, advanced formally to Miss Singleton, and bending his powdered head nearly to the level of the hand he extended, received hers in return.
"He waits your pleasure," said the trooper dryly.
"Certainly, he waits for his cartel; but hasten, John, we have but little time to waste.
"Come, my love, the ceremony waits but for us," said the aunt, affectionately entwining her arm in that of her niece.
They are to be admitted to the society of Captain Wharton, who waits only for their testimony to be tried.
"Has the man whom I wished to see arrived, sir?""He waits the pleasure of your excellency."
"And what greater misfortune can there be," replied Panza, "than the one that waits for time to put an end to it and death to remove it?
And what is still more marvellous, no sooner has one gone down into the depths he will never rise from till the end of the world, than another takes his place; and if he too falls into the sea that waits for him like an enemy, another and another will succeed him without a moment's pause between their deaths: courage and daring the greatest that all the chances of war can show.
Your worship's great courage has been fully manifested already; no brave champion, so it strikes me, is bound to do more than challenge his enemy and wait for him on the field; if his adversary does not come, on him lies the disgrace, and he who waits for him carries off the crown of victory."
The prodigious scarecrow obeyed, and standing up, removed the veil from his face and disclosed the most enormous, the longest, the whitest and the thickest beard that human eyes had ever beheld until that moment, and then fetching up a grave, sonorous voice from the depths of his broad, capacious chest, and fixing his eyes on the duke, he said:"Most high and mighty senor, my name is Trifaldin of the White Beard; I am squire to the Countess Trifaldi, otherwise called the Distressed Duenna, on whose behalf I bear a message to your highness, which is that your magnificence will be pleased to grant her leave and permission to come and tell you her trouble, which is one of the strangest and most wonderful that the mind most familiar with trouble in the world could have imagined; but first she desires to know if the valiant and never vanquished knight, Don Quixote of La Mancha, is in this your castle, for she has come in quest of him on foot and without breaking her fast from the kingdom of Kandy to your realms here; a thing which may and ought to be regarded as a miracle or set down to enchantment; she is even now at the gate of this fortress or plaisance, and only waits for your permission to enter.
Goes on errands fast asleep, and snores as he waits at table.''How very odd!' said Mr. Pickwick.
In these waits and in others it seemed to him that the journey was chiefly made up of waits Tarvin saw himself distanced in the race of life by every male citizen of the United States, and groaned with the consciousness that he could never overtake them, or make up this lost time.
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