Those who miss out on the correcting influence of either of these tend to fall into a spiral in which the body clock gradually becomes more and more out of synch with daylight hours.
DirecTV, which drives most of their subscriber base, is more or less just letting the clock run out on the rest of their deal.
That will more likely be achieved by the confirmation without further delay of Jim Glassman than by allowing the clock to run out on the remaining months of the Bush Administration without strong leadership in the key State Department post.
Built-in dolls come out of the clock at noon each day to dance around and tell the time.
That way, he said, he wouldn't have to haul his digital clock with the extension cord out of his truck to every practice.
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.
To play back video, you can either pop the SD card out of the clock and into your PC or connect the clock to your PC via an included USB cable. (Unfortunately, the cover for the USB port fits poorly.) Video files can be played by Windows Media Player on the PC or QuickTime on either the PC or Mac after adding the DivX component.
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.
This kind of urgency carries over to fiction, where a ticking clock a sense of time running out can make the pages seem to snap by with the speed of a second hand.
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As a sport played without a clock, a baseball game occurs out of time.
If I had not taken the battery out of his wall clock before we began the interview you would just have heard the clock ticking.
This was the rhetorical equivalent, forgive the football metaphor, of running out the clock: Obama clearly thinks he's ahead and just doesn't need to make mistakes.
The national security staff in the White House is also coordinating a large interagency response with experts meeting around the clock to monitor the latest information coming out of Japan.
Hundreds of people have turned out to see a town clock lit up in pink to mark the third week since the disappearance of April Jones.
"The atomic clock is actually putting out an electronic signal which is essentially analogous to the ticking of a pendulum clock... which might tick once every second or once every couple of seconds, " says Dr McCarthy.
The demonstration appeared to be designed to show just how much clock speed Intel may be able to squeeze out of its new chip design.
That is because his trial might have to start again from scratch, and might still be before the courts when the clock runs out on the charges under the statute of limitations.
Curiously absent from this scenario was the fact that the players wear full uniforms with pads and protection, play a game under a time clock, out in the open, in front of family and fans.
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The portability crowd will be a bit bummed that the Soloist only plays when connected to an AC outlet, as a battery compartment is MIA, but you will be able to wake to your favorite tune or Sirius station thanks to the built-in alarm clock, which could possibly make dragging yourself out of bed at least slightly less excruciating.
She said having the alarm clock hide was the most obvious way to get snoozers out of bed.
Late in the first half, after a couple of shot-clock meltdowns, Giorgis yelled out to his team: "Nobody wants to shoot!"
At a frenetic factory outside the village of Ringaskiddy, Ireland, workers have spent the past year laboring in 12-hour shifts around the clock, seven days a week, turning out 10 tonnes of a plain-looking white powder with extraordinary qualities.
Instead of Americans enjoying a bounty after the clock runs out, federal farm policy will automatically revert to a farm bill drawn up in 1949.
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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.
Conforming states would love to rewind the clock to a time prior to the 2002 through 2004 phase out of the federal state death tax credit, and prior to the 2005 elimination of that credit.
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Warwickshire County Council said it had already spread 2, 500 tonnes of salt and gritters would be out around the clock.
However it does annoy me that when people stand around talking or spend a lot time making a cup of tea, they don't have to clock out.
Governor Romney hopes that by remaining silent and focusing all of the ill will onto the shoulders of Todd Akin, he can run out the clock on the controversy and insulate himself from having to answer for his own relationship with Dr. Willke.
It is five o'clock in the morning and in a scene that would not look out of place in a zombie film, bleary-eyed youngsters, with fixed stares and many still clad in their night clothes, stagger into a leisure centre in west London.
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The problem is that one sequencer operating around the clock takes at least three years to crank out the raw unordered genetic code of just one person.
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