A lot of them simply seem like opportunities waiting for shifts in policy or spending.
After much delay, the coalition talks about banning the most abusive contracts, which actually bar staff from seeking employment with anyone else while they hang around waiting for shifts that may not come their way.
Money managers have been waiting for this shift for months, after the central bank slashed overnight interest rates by more than half in the past 15 months, to 16.5percentt.
Mr. Munsel remembers going to the mine, where his stepfather worked in the late 1940s, and sleeping under a dusty workbench, waiting for the shift change.
They were daydreaming and planning, walking aimlessly or with great purpose, lost in thought or in each other's arms, arguing, laughing, glaring, kissing, frowning, waiting for their shift to begin or end, singing, swinging, gambling, drinking in one another with indifference, contempt or lust.
Amazingly, what you were wanting was waiting there, simply waiting for a shift to happen.
He further cites them for "snoozing through the liberal hour": Rather than take action, they're merely waiting for demographic shifts in the future to give them the Congressional majorities they need.
"You can't be waiting for him to shift and change your balance, because all of a sudden he sticks his helmet into your chest".
On Monday morning, before the winter sun had risen, I was waiting for the next shift's worker to arrive, when one of my friends called.
Waiting for his afternoon shift near the Green Bay Mall on the Pluit waterfront in north Jakarta, Ahmed Setiawan is busy feeding flies to his caged birds.
As a boy he was so big his skates broke right under his feet, and at 16, his coach first tapped him on the shoulder as he sat on the bench waiting for his next shift.
