My personal path to riches involves waiting for a million-dollar bonus.
What if the only job you can find involves waiting tables or working as a clerk in a retail store?
There are parenting books that teach you how to do it the French way, which involves waiting before you attend to their cries – la pause.
Hunting by calling involves waiting in hiding and making imitative noises by voice or with a call mechanism to attract the game.
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.
The council put a work-around in for bikes, a lane like a jug handle, which puts you at almost right angles to the tracks but involves waiting at a set of lights.
Our examples: the Starbucks Effect, which involves waiting in line for something you are not sure you want, and The Retweet Effect, which involves passing on information that doesn't really matter to you.
Some customers may be able to find the answer to their own questions more quickly on a website than on the telephone, especially if the latter involves waiting on hold for 20 minutes.
This approach would provide a rather more effective discipline than the current one, which, as we have seen, involves waiting 10 years for policy to fail and then surreptitiously walking away.
But before a traveler can head to the sanctuary of her room, she must go through the tedious task of checking in — a process that usually involves waiting in line, signing paperwork and making small talk with a hotel employee when all she really wants to do is get into bed.
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.
