Commanders at Creech say that if there is stress, it comes from relentless around-the-clock shift work.

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In spite of round-the-clock work, progress on boring a huge tunnel into the earth was not up to mark.

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For Buck the breakthrough represented the payoff for three years of round-the-clock work in the lab at Columbia.

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Yet contrary to Bush's clear view on the matter, State Department officials work around the clock negotiating cease-fires.

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In addition, many workers are not compensated for time that they work off-the-clock or are not paid appropriate overtime wages.

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Best Buy, now in trouble, became the darling of social media watchers a few years ago for its open flexible work models, unprecedented in a punch-clock domain like retail.

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They represent nearly 1.8 million homecare workers across the country -- hardworking professionals, mostly women, who work around the clock so that folks who need help, including many of our family members, can live independently in their own home.

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International chefs work around the clock to dish out an average of 100, 000 meals a day -- enough to feed the population of a small city.

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But with Martyn Williams' influence increasingly important and the defensive work of Shanklin and Roberts regularly thwarting the Ospreys the clock was against them and Norton-Knight's drop-goal put the contest beyond doubt.

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