Now comes the waiting game to see who can hold out longer for the best terms.
The current waiting game has prompted anxiety and a touch of political rancor outside the court.
However, as federal dollars go, a waiting game can have serious consequences for the economy.
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There is no leadership in this position, just a waiting game while debt problems get worse.
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Or it could mean more consumers are skipping the line-waiting game and, instead, have chosen to order the phone online.
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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The Shabab, who have dispersed their communications equipment, men and weapons, can again be expected to play a waiting game.
It is all very normal and all part and parcel of giant pandas - it's just really a waiting game now.
"North American consumers in particular appear to be playing a waiting game, " noted Paul Gagnon, Director of North America TV Research.
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Locals then began a lengthy waiting game for a trial to commence.
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Ken Quinn, who works in a groceries import and export firm, said that business in general was playing a waiting game at present.
Nato needs to play less of a waiting game and be more proactive in pushing the US to speed up the talks process.
They did tests and said it would be IVF that we would need, and from there it's just a very, very long waiting game.
However, as long as this kind of environment remains, businesses hang onto cash, hire as few (regular) employees as possible, and generally play a waiting game.
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.
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 ).
Others played a waiting game with Congress.
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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.
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.
"A big part of it is waiting for great game content to be available, " explains Mitchell.
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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.
It's tough to hear what he says next, but it sounds like, "We'll probably just roll it out in one of our games" (subtitles of the video read: "We've just been waiting for a game to roll it out with").
The frustration of 10 years of waiting for a new game boiled over and resulted in some gamers taking action.
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.
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.
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.
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