• Whereas in 2000 Canada's output per man-hour was 82% of America's, it is now only 75%.

    ECONOMIST: Canada has everything, except perhaps ambition

  • Yet it may still not be good enough: the best mini-mill firms can make a ton of steel using less than one man-hour of labour.

    ECONOMIST: In America��s fiery furnace

  • Mr Fitzgerald calculates that, if weekly wages fall by 12.5%, exactly matching the reduction in hours worked, and if output per man-hour remains the same, then employment would actually decline slightly.

    ECONOMIST: Labour markets

  • The chair of the health committee has described an elderly man's 21-hour wait for a bed at the Royal Victoria Hospital as "disgraceful".

    BBC: Elderly man's 21-hour RVH bed wait 'disgraceful'

  • He spent 20 minutes in an online video discussion with 4-Hour Everything man Timothy Ferriss and he even curses at him at the very end of the video and Tim cries.

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  • Smith is not named in the 19-man squad but could be drafted in up to an hour before kick-off if Lomax is ruled out.

    BBC: St Helens half-back Matty Smith stands by for recall

  • Ramsey was awarded the man-of-the-match honour despite playing less than an hour as fellow promising teenager Joe Allen had the difficult task of replacing him in the 57th minute.

    BBC: Modest Ramsey lauds team effort

  • Protecting a first-leg 3-1 lead, Inter were forced to play more than an hour a man short after Thiago Motta saw red for a hand-off on Sergio Busquets.

    BBC: Barcelona 1-0 Inter (agg 2-3)

  • Late on Sunday officers were granted a further 24-hour detention to hold another man arrested on suspicion of murder.

    BBC: Missing Kyle Vaughan: Boy, 15, is fourth arrest

  • The man can reel off 98 mile-per-hour fastballs at the letters at will when he's in a tight spot, and so watching him nick corners and change speeds is like watching Carmelo Anthony pass and set picks: not what you're paying for and totally beside the point.

    WSJ: Why Matt Harvey Is Not Dwight Gooden

  • But they also have exclusive in-house amenities, such as a private lobby desk and concierge staff, with escorted in-room iPad registration, one of the best upgrades you can get in a city where main lobby registration, even at top hotels, often resembles the economy class check-in line at JFK. The 24-hour room service features the first-ever in-room dining menu designed by the man himself, culinary legend Nobu Matsuhisa.

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  • How this country has changed, I thought: the son of the President is now an ordinary snitch, a man doomed to look over his shoulder for six one-hour episodes, and then die invisibly, his passing just a footnote to a larger drama that has little to do with him.

    NEWYORKER: The Idiot President

  • Edinburgh were made to pay for not taking advantage of the extra man when Blair booted a 40-metre penalty for Cardiff just past the hour mark.

    BBC: Edinburgh 16-3 Cardiff Blues

  • Put either man on a tennis court or pitch them a 95-mile-per-hour fastball and they might whiff as badly as any weekend hacker.

    WSJ: The World's Greatest Athlete?

  • Sperling, a man religiously opposed to having a social life, continues to log six 18-hour days a week, even though he has now acquired three assistants, who are already pasty-faced with fatigue and have gained the nicknames Thing One, Thing Two and Thing Three after characters in The Cat in the Hat.

    CNN: It's All In The Timing

  • After weeks of air and missile bombardment, the 100-hour land battle dubbed Desert Storm routed Iraq's million-man army.

    WHITEHOUSE: George H. W. Bush

  • L. Stine, the man of the hour is surely Dave Herman, an incredibly spirited and resolute 27-year-old working his way around New York City on a project to work one hundred jobs in one year (November will be his eleventh month).

    FORBES: How Social Media Married R.L. Stine And Improv

  • It was that man Conway who set up United's best chance of the match approaching the half-hour mark.

    BBC: Dundee United 2-2 Rangers

  • After a four-hour search in mist and darkness by Killin Mountain Rescue Team, the man was found several kilometres south of Beinn Each.

    BBC: Rescuers warning to hill walkers

  • He's the man behind the "Rush Hour" action movie franchise and last summer's "X-Men: The Last Stand".

    NPR: Young Hollywood Wooed by Presidential Hopefuls

  • Geert Wilders' courage in standing up to the Red-Green axis and its shared agenda of destroying Western civilization has made him the man of the hour in his country.

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  • But Israel has not identified the man, said why he was imprisoned, explained how he committed suicide when he was under 24-hour surveillance or explained why the case was hidden from the public for more than two years.

    NPR: Israeli Premier Defends Israel In Prisoner Scandal

  • Jeffs, who had stood expressionless and silent before the jury for nearly half hour during his closing arguments, called only one defence witness to the stand - a man who read from Mormon scripture.

    BBC: Warren Jeffs, polygamist sect leader, gets life in jail

  • In her outstanding book on photographer Edward Muybridge, Rebecca Solnit recounts a death, during the first running of a passenger railroad in 1830, because a man could not step off the track in time from a long-seen locomotive going perhaps 30 miles an hour.

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  • BELGRADE, Yugoslavia -- The man tipped to be Serbia's next interior minister says he will put former president Slobodan Milosevic under 24-hour surveillance.

    CNN: Milosevic

  • During a four-hour interview at his home, Mattis--a restless, intense live wire of a man--doesn't sit down even once (nor does he offer his visitor a chair).

    FORBES: Red Eye

  • The Spaniard claimed his eighth straight title at the tournament, ending a run of seven defeats in finals to the man who replaced him at the top of the world rankings, including January's record-breaking six-hour epic at the Australian Open.

    CNN: Emotional toll too much for Djokovic

  • North Korean state TV broadcast a two-hour tribute to Kim Jong Il on Wednesday morning, chiefly showing images of him as a young man.

    WSJ: North Korea Bids Farewell to Kim Jong Il

  • Spider-Man 3 was much criticized among many other failings for keeping its arachnid protagonist off screen for the first half hour of the film.

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