If we were to wait patiently for business to deliver the goods, we would all be underwater before long.

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Airline employees and flight attendants could do without the cranky travelers who refuse to wait patiently, turn off cell phones or stay in their seats.

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Large private equity firms are increasingly evolving away from their traditional business model, which allowed the general partners of these funds to wait patiently for the carried interest to start flowing.

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Watching paint dry is a mere instance compared to watching ice form, but each year the organizers have to wait patiently for a solid layer of at least 30 centimeters before declaring the event safe.

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Mr Blair will have little authority and Mr Brown will have to wait as patiently as he can before attempting the difficult task of renewal in office.

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Cybercriminals leverage the vulnerabilities of a trusted partner to open the back door and wait patiently for the opportune moment to strike, and then waltz off with high-value data.

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But since they tend to automatically become dimmer over time, you can patiently wait for that to happen, and rest later.

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Or patiently wait to see who becomes Russia's next president, and then make his pitch, all over again, for a more agreeable union.

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Technology always evolves faster than the law and must patiently wait for it to catch up.

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Would we figure out within minutes what was transpiring, and why, and would we wait patiently for the sun to reappear?

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Investors who wait patiently for a reaction to this level before buying any stock will usually find it a rewarding experience.

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They wait patiently for their turn to get off the plane.

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As we patiently wait for the browser to make its public appearance, you can pine for it by drooling over the images in our gallery below.

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The counterargument is that it is unfair: Why should Mexicans get to "jump the line" and win instant or near-instant legal status while thousand and thousands of others who have waited patiently for legal status still have to wait and deal with the same maddening immigration bureaucracy?

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We did manage to grab some video of the hardware though, so head south to take a look of that, while we patiently wait for price and availability information.

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