In American football the clock stops when a player appears hurt, helping the team that is trailing or one that wants to swap in new players.
It was the first chance for the pair to renew rivalries since Dempsey's infamous strike past Green in Rustenburg, and just two minutes were on the clock when the American tried his luck with a speculative 25-yard effort that went well wide.
The other point is that all American wars are fought on the clock.
The clock will strike and the American stockmarket will run down.
"The devices were designed by American Airlines' engineers working around the clock since Sept. 11 to meet the challenge of providing additional cockpit security, " the airline said in a statement.
These cuts will have little impact on the federal deficit, but they will turn back the clock on intelligence gathering and hamstring American efforts to keep pace with the daily, almost hourly, changes in strategically important countries.
The gaffes surrounding such debates have become part of the folklore of American presidential elections ever since Richard Nixon's five o'clock shadow is said to have lost him the 1960 presidential race.
And when the clock ran out, the Rapids were the best team in American soccer.
And we knew that there would be powerful voices that would do everything they could to run out the clock, change the subject, ignore the majority of the American people.
And there are some powerful voices on the other side that are interested in running out the clock or changing the subject or drowning out the majority of the American people to prevent any of these reforms from happening at all.
The basic reality of American prisons is not that of the lock and key but that of the lock and clock.
Today we watch the wizened hulk of one of the most storied companies in American history sadly scramble to auction off its trove of aging patents as an indifferent market waits for the bankruptcy clock to run out.
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