George W. Bush George W. Bush is playing football, running the ball up the gut in an effort to run out the clock.
But despite claims of interest in reform, industry lobbyists are refusing to offer concrete suggestions and trying to run out the clock on our efforts.
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.
Bayern needed only to run out the clock to clinch the championship, but with the game on the line, it inexplicably wilted, handing Chelsea a dramatic, implausible equalizer from an all-too-familiar source.
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As I noted the other day, this is particularly true for software devices and other complex products, where trivial changes can be exaggerated in an effort to run out the clock on a patent.
This case demonstrates that a determined infringer can make minor changes, drag out judicial proceedings, and seek to run out the clock on a patent, thereby squandering both judicial resources as well as incentives for innovation.
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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.
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.
The Broncos quarterback took the snap and dropped to his knee to let the clock run out.
DirecTV, which drives most of their subscriber base, is more or less just letting the clock run out on the rest of their deal.
Today we watch the wizened hulk of one of the most storied companies in American history sadly scramble to auction off its trove of aging patents as an indifferent market waits for the bankruptcy clock to run out.
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