The rule was, the more you looked at the clock the slower the time went.
Then she looks at the clock to time the seizure and tries to turn her husband on his side to help him breathe.
Over a few decades this would amount to a minute's difference, but over several hundred years this would mean the atomic clock time-scale and the time-scale based on the Earth's rotation would be out by an hour.
Jerrold Zacharias at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed a practical atomic clock around the same time that Louis Essen and John Parry established the first atomic clock at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, west of London.
Some people have asked me if investment advisers charge like lawyers do, with the clock ticking all the time and every single photo copy charged out to a particular client.
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So how could someone clock the same time at two different distances ?
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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Every morning, Catherine Fortney's alarm rings at 03:30 and by the time the clock strikes 06:00, she must be at the nearby bus stop.
As the clock ticks towards curtain time, the filmmaker still doesn't have the final set-list, and is getting jittery.
The little creature's also got four additional touch sensors, a temperature sensor, a gravity sensor and an internal clock to tell the time of day, improved motors, and basic voice recognition -- and the Hong Kong packaging suggests the dinos will even come in two different sexes.
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"If there's still time on the clock, there's still time to score, " Frattin said.
If one or two seconds remain on the clock, there is only time for the offense to run one more play.
When landing at the airport, you won't have to search for a clock to know the correct time at your destination.
As the clock ticked over into injury time a last assault from the Wallabies saw them come within inches of scoring several times before Giteau sent the ball wide for replacement centre Cross to power over.
"I'm not saying that the human race is imminently doomed but it's also clear that the clock is ticking and time is running out in order to take action to avoid the escalating damages which could make the whole process unstoppable, " he told CNN.
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.
And the minute that happened the time clock went off on a 14 day hold.
The magnitude of this crisis suggests that the printing presses will be running around the clock for some time.
In exchange they were allowed to share meals and pray together, have nearly round-the-clock recreation time as well as access to satellite TV, computer games and classes.
The one source, perplexed by this reasoning, questioned the expertise of some of those in the room who said they coached football, wondering if they understood the time constraints of the play clock.
His realization was that the solution wouldn't come from improved astronomical readings, as many thinkers believed, but from an extremely accurate clock that could tell the time of the home port while at sea.
The veteran keeper kept his side in the game with seven minutes of normal time on the clock as he brilliantly turned away Srna's free-kick after Petric had been fouled on the edge of the area.
Deportivo was losing 2-1 at the time and, with the clock ticking away, everyone expected a long, looping Hail Mary type whack into the Madrid box, hoping for a deflection or a header or even a deflected header to equalize: in those situations, you can't really be picky.
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With the Olympic clock ticking, Rio does not have the time to build an extensive new metro system, or for that matter, the money.
Joint managing director Ian Thurgood said last year the business put on triple shifts for the first time, operating around the clock, to meet demand.
He just wanted to hang around, because the next day brought a time trial against the clock, and Phinney had a chance for a good result in that event.
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Shakhtar continued to have more of the ball but Fulham were at least offering a threat - and with 63 minutes on the clock they once again took the lead, this time in breathtaking fashion.
As the clock ticked well into the fifth minute of injury time the ball was passed back to Evans and, with the last kick of the match, the New Zealander scudded a low drop-goal between the posts.
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