The Republican leader insists that Senator Reid file cloture, which starts a 30-hour clock.
At the end of that 30-hour clock, no one -- no one opposes the nominee.
Few people except airline pilots are entirely at home with the 24-hour clock.
"They used to get confused by the 24 hour clock and you would get breaches by thousands of minutes, " she said.
Digitally connected every moment, we are tied to a 24-hour global clock, expected to perform continually in the face of global pressures, including downsizing, mergers, and their related stresses and expectations.
Sexton missed the conversion but with less than half an hour on the clock England's dreams of the Grand Slam were as good as over.
Walt Disney ( DIS - news - people )-owned ABC, now the only broadcast networks scheduling scripted fare during the 10 o'clock hour.
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.
While U.S. workers are often paid more per hour than offshore staff, some firms are adjusting how they pay: instead of having them on the clock for an eight hour day, the home agents are being paid only when they are really working.
The All Blacks selected a strong line-up in anticipation of a closely-fought encounter, but such was their total dominance they could allow the faultless Carter and captain Richie McCaw to leave the field before an hour had elapsed on the clock.
Clearly, it's up to all employers to stop the clock on wage and hour liability.
The cancelled meeting would trigger my alarm clock being set back an hour, allowing me to sleep a little longer.
How exactly, for example, does Sir Mervyn think you could agree to restructure the private debt that is causing so much trouble, in an era of 24-hour news and round-the-clock leaks?
In the kitchen she waited for another quarter of an hour, watching the hands of the dresser clock.
Because on three separate occasions, Ms. Lewinsky testified that Ms. Currie came over to pick up the gifts at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, an hour-and-a-half before the phone call.
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Travellers on long-haul flights, for example to California, which is eight hours behind UK time, take about a week to recover as the body clock can only adjust by one hour a day, he said.
South of Boston, the Hyatt Place Braintree opens on 21 May with a 24-hour guest kitchen that provides meals and snacks around the clock via a touch-screen kiosk.
The Antiquorum automaton includes a clock, which activates the automaton every half hour, triggering the bird to sing one of seven popular tunes (as live canaries of the time were routinely trained to do).
The British Beer and Pub Association and the British Institute of Innkeeping have said that some of their members have 24-hour licences but have no intention of staying open around the clock.
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Back at my car, I checked the clock and was shocked to learn that more than an hour had passed.
"I should be back on the ward by around eight o'clock at night - it's a 12-hour job really, " she said.
"That hour when we opened our clearance website, at 5 o'clock on Christmas Eve, was our single busiest day online, ever, " Mr Street said.
Its functions are vital to the regulation of the body's "circadian rhythms", whose powerful clock-like mechanisms synchronise the body with the 24 -hour period that is day and night.
Suddenly as I watched as the clock on the theatre wall it started to whizz round, each hour lasting less than a minute.
Some episodes clock in at only 5 minutes, while others frequently break the 2 hour barrier.
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So at the end of the 6.2-mile race, which is a half-hour long, a lot of running, Begley realizes her competition is with the clock and she kicks it into high gear.
We didn't clock our speeds, but the bike can supposedly top about 15 miles per hour on flat ground with the pedal-assist on, and that sounds about right to us.
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