My personal path to riches involves waiting for a million-dollar bonus.
Daily journalism is an inherently wasteful process: it involves waiting for calls to be returned, for airlines to fly, keeping forty-two bureaus functioning, chasing stories that don't pan out, and sometimes working for days on a single story.
In such a case surely consideration for the welfare of the child should have involved waiting for the outcome of the trial before seeking the Family Court's approval for the child to be adopted.
Just getting the whales to Key Largo was a multiday process that involved waiting for them to stabilize and then transporting them on a boat equipped with a three-sided berth.
For the people Alex Heard has been talking to across the United States for roughly the past decade, the dawn of the 21st century involves waiting for enlightened space travellers, stockpiling food and ammunition for an environmental Armageddon or preserving severed human heads for the day when all disease can be cured.
Getting consistent results is not easy, but it is far faster than the old-fashioned way of doing cardiovascular trials, which basically involves waiting for patients to have heart attacks.
Rocket comes with a PalmPilot-like cradle that connects to a serial port; ordering from a Web site involves waiting for e-mail confirmation, clicking on a Web address, doing the download and finally transferring the book from computer to reader.
In any case, consumers aren't likely to suffer the customs process very often, which involves waiting for notification of arrival, getting clearance from a regional customs officer and then, in most cases, traveling to an offsite warehouse to actually pick up the item.
Mostly it involves waiting for one's turn in a hotel lobby with countless other teams.
