Should you have the patience to endure such protracted roadmaps, you should be seeing a lot more from LG in the mobile display space -- where Samsung currently holds the technological lead with its Super AMOLED screens -- as well as the luxury TV market that already counts the 15-inch 15EL9500 among its numbers.

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But others have already lost patience, feeling they should have seen results by now.

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Muni bonds should have been downgraded a year ago by the credit agencies whose patience must give way to the arithmetic of declining tax receipts.

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As head of the LDP's second-largest faction, a little patience and a little more shmoozing with fellow party leaders should have seen him in the top job in the near future.

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