It also gets the five year clock ticking in case they want to use the earnings tax-free towards a first-time home purchase someday.

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"I feel deep sympathy and admiration for the Cedillo family, " Special Master George L. Hastings Jr. wrote in his ruling in the case involving 14-year-old Michelle Cedillo, who cannot speak, wears a diaper and requires round-the-clock monitoring in case she has a seizure.

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So the government persuaded him to sign an annual tolling agreement, which allowed the feds to stop the clock and build a stronger case.

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They're also cleaning the Mets' clock in newspaper column space, which was rarely the case a generation ago.

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In this case, the courts were faced with deciding whether the five-year clock begins to tick when the fraud is complete or when the fraud is discovered.

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Auctioneer Jonathan Humbert said the bus, which can hold 35 passengers, has just 28, 000km (17, 398 miles) on the clock and it has its own auxiliary generator and air supply in case anyone attacked it.

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The Commission has remanded Motorola's case back to the Administrative Law Judge that gave the initial ruling, which very nearly restarts the clock: a new ruling won't come for months, and the usual review process guarantees even more of a delay even if the decision once more works in Motorola's favor.

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In his book, Make It In America: The Case for Re-Inventing the Economy, Dow Chemical Company CEO Andrew Liveris calls us to turn back the clock and return to a time when America was defined by the things it built.

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