It is only now, 400 years after the invention of the decimal system by Simon Stevin, a forgotten Belgian tradesman, that counting time in tens has become an economic imperative.
Scored in three movements, their duration determined by chance, his four-minute-and-thirty-three-second work was first presented at the Maverick Concert Hall in New York, where the virtuoso pianist David Tudor performed it by sitting motionless at the piano, counting time on a stopwatch.
You learn to write by writing, and writing a novel (counting the time for research and working out the back-story on all the main characters) usually takes about two years.
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The average wait from when a plane landed to when the last passenger cleared immigration, not counting walking time from the plane to the immigration hall, was 23 minutes, even with only 11 booths manned, according to CBP figures.
We don't spend a lot of time counting on things we can't control.
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She said alternative sources had "known weaknesses including gaps, double counting and a significant time lag".
The third, is that 7 weeks (and counting) remains a long time in U.S. politics.
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That made Berlusconi the coalition kingmaker at a time when the nation is counting on action to create jobs and enact political reform.
The polls closed at 1800 local time (1500 GMT) and counting began immediately.
Given the general volatility of thoroughbred racing, and the fact that the horses are, by rule, 3 years old, the favorite has only managed to win four times in the last 33 years (or 12% of the time, but who's counting).
The extreme microscope will enable a number of subjective and time-consuming tasks such as counting the number of cells staining positive for a biomarker or locating cells infected with a parasite like malaria, to be replaced by highly repeatable and robust computer vision applications.
We spend 20% of our time on phones on Facebook, not counting Instagram, Zuck says.
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But with her time in jail as she awaited trial counting against the jail terms, she was released 10 days after her sentencing.
But with her time in jail as she awaited trial counting against the jail terms, she was released 10 days after her sentencing, on July 17.
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The researcher then shows the video a second time, instructing the audience to forget about counting the passes and just watch the scene.
That got me to thinking: We still have a 9% unemployment rate, which is much, much higher when counting those persons who are involuntarily employed only part-time or who have entirely dropped out of the labor force.
The hosts improved after the break but it was still Milan who provided the threat, with Mathieu Flamini and Pato coming desperately close to forcing extra time as the home fans watched the clock counting down with increasing anxiety.
At the same time, trust is much more than card-counting, or doing clever probabilistic analyses of the odds.
One final note on Moss: what seems lost in his getting cut is that one of the great talents in the NFL has now been kicked to the curb for the 4th time in his pro career (six including college, counting Florida State and Notre Dame), yet seems to receive little blame in the process, excused by many due to his prodigious talent.
At the same time, many manufacturers had built up massive factories and were counting on a huge surge in demand in the global market.
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As a then-Green Party candidate, she had little TV time and a modest funding to promote her views, thus counting almost exclusively on the internet to reach voters.
With the Galaxy S4, Samsung has built up so many features that consumers will be spending far more time in apps designed by Samsung than with Google (not counting the core OS).
Election Commission deputy chairman Ahmad Omar said the opposition leader was "bluffing" and "talking nonsense, " noting that counting had only begun in a fraction of the electoral contests at the time Mr. Anwar had issued his message.
Unlike the first generation wearable technologies like counting users steps and estimating calories, Xsens' technology enables accurate, real-time tracking of body motion.
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To test the theory, researchers gave 132 participants one of three tasks: using tweezers to remove small pieces from slots in the Japanese equivalent of the board game Operation, counting the appearances of a digit in a block of numbers, and a reaction time test.
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The prospect of choosing between multiple job offers may seem unlikely these days, given all the talk of joblessness and the real unemployment rate of 15.1% (counting people who have given up looking for work, and those working part-time who wish they had full-time jobs).
Counting Patch's 800-plus editors, she now has around 1, 300 full-time journalists working for her--more than either the Washington Post or the Wall Street Journal.
Saturday's contest marked the first time a Western state has played an early role in the presidential race, and Democrats are counting on Latino voters to help the party make inroads into the region in 2008.
Not counting the Super Bowl, or even the playoffs, there were about 350 NFL games with almost 40 in prime time, and an average of 18 million viewers.
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