One of the biggest complaints, particularly during the NCAA tournament, has been about officials stopping games to check the game clock, then adding a few tenths of a second back.

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Then she looks at the clock to time the seizure and tries to turn her husband on his side to help him breathe.

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Manning, seeing what was happening, thought for a moment that the Giants should decline the invitation to score, run another play to wind down the clock, and then kick a field goal.

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I've known people who put the alarm clock in the living room, but then forget to set it before going to sleep.

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She says back then about 70 million calls were being made to the Speaking Clock.

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One is to turn back the clock on financial integration: then pure-floating or semi-fixed systems might once again be used successfully.

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Nate Lubick beat the shot clock with a baseline hook to tie it, and then Georgetown took over again behind Smith-Rivera.

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Then in 1656, Dutch mathematician Christiaan Huygens made the first working pendulum clock, accurate to an error of less than one minute per day.

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First he hit a pair of free throws, then knocked down a 3-pointer over Kenny Kadji with the shot clock winding down to push Duke to a 58-56 lead with 9:13 left.

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