Now comes the waiting game to see who can hold out longer for the best terms.
Vasella has been playing the waiting game quite a bit--analysts love to speculate that Novartis will buy another drug company, like Roche or maybe Bristol-Myers Squibb (nyse: BMY - news - people ).
Even if Apple has summoned the grimy legions of reporters who follow the company to cover the launch of new iTunes software, the waiting game will be a whole lot less fun if you're spending the time wondering if your new toy is about to be made obsolete.
El Guerrouj, however, played the perfect waiting game under the stadium floodlights, allowing the Ethiopians and Kenyans to dictate the early pace as the race surged and slowed.
The current waiting game has prompted anxiety and a touch of political rancor outside the court.
Or it could mean more consumers are skipping the line-waiting game and, instead, have chosen to order the phone online.
During the rough economy, big money franchises like the New York Giants and Jets, Dallas Cowboys and even the Washington Nationals have been sitting out the stadium naming rights game, waiting for the market to turn rather than settle for (what they see as) a lousy deal.
But Mr. Remengesau sounds like he's sick of playing the long game, waiting for tuna to become lucrative for Pacific islands at some future date.
The solution is, finally, to fix the game, rather than waiting for the players to behave differently.
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They were clearly up for baseball after a tough winter, at least among the true loyalists that were lined up two hours before game time waiting for the gates to open.
Earlier, the 8-11 favourite Harchibald played a patient waiting game to beat Rooster Booster for the Stan James Christmas Hurdle.
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Though BP subsequently pulled itself out of the running, the belief is that BP Chief Tony Hayward is just being patient, waiting for Exxon to leave the game before stepping up again.
For the past seven years, he has given the impression of a man biding his time, waiting for the right conditions to rejoin the game.
After the game, Carrasco was waiting outside Francona's office and told his manager he slipped on the pitch to Youkilis.
When he travels, that's how he will do it, with or without a corporate sponsor, even now that there will be no game waiting on the other end.
If you're sick and tired of waiting for the new, improved game deck and have to have one now , GameSpot has learned that the Canadian launch of the N-Gage is still set for the end of June, so you can take a quick trip north or mail order one from your favorite Canadian reseller in a few weeks.
And it's true that some people could game the system by just waiting until they get sick and then they show up.
All these upgrades in both offense and defense allow NCAA Football 13 to deliver the game college football fans have been waiting for.
However, as federal dollars go, a waiting game can have serious consequences for the economy.
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Posh are still waiting on defender Craig Morgan ahead of the Rovers game following his toe injury.
The frustration of 10 years of waiting for a new game boiled over and resulted in some gamers taking action.
While the U.S. data recently have not been grand by any means, it has generally been in line or better than expected and I would think the Fed would still be playing more of a waiting game than priming any presses at this point.
In a large sense, by making this prediction, I was betting on the score of a game that had already been played all we are doing now is waiting for the media to catch up and report the results to the public at large.
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Nato needs to play less of a waiting game and be more proactive in pushing the US to speed up the talks process.
Horn, an action-RPG designed for Android and iOS, is being billed as the action game that tablets and mobile phones have been waiting for.
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Comcast SportsNet New England posted a video on its website showing Anthony waiting near Boston's team bus after the game, with coach Mike Woodson and New York City police nearby.
But waiting for the little pop-up attention tests added a game-like quality to watching ads.
Their stadium, which they struggled to fill before he arrived, is full for every home game and 100, 000 people are on the waiting list for season tickets.
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