If you're working on the last-minute details of a report for a meeting that starts in 30 minutes, don't accept a drop-in visitor's request to "ask you something really quick."

如果你在为30分钟后就要开始的会议报告准备最后的细节，不要接受那些贸然访客的“很快问你一些事情”之类的请求。

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Others said they were waiting for the last minute rush and a possible drop in prices.

其他人表示他们正在等待最后的一鼓作气及有可能的价格下跌。

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And winger Stoddart touched down four minutes before half-time, Priestland converting and adding a drop goal in the last minute of the first half to send his side into the interval 13-10 to the good.

BBC: Aironi 17-34 Scarlets

Crusaders then got their own back by doing the league double over the Frenchmen last season, although Catalans won at the Racecourse Ground in the Challenge Cup, thanks to a last-minute Thomas Bosc drop goal.

BBC: Catalan Dragons 31-18 Crusaders

Best Buy, whose Q3 results were, well, pretty bad with a 20% drop in profits, is offering free shipping this weekend along with all the other online retailers trolling for last minute shoppers. (Those same Q3 figures, by the way, showed that its online channel delivered a 20% increase in revenues compared to the same period a year earlier).

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