Jurors have also heard that in the period before the killing, he told Mrs Esack she was a "dead woman walking" and added "tick tock, tick tock".

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"I will always remember this day and I would like to thank my father because I owe everything to him, " added Dettori, who was ribbed by his fellow riders throughout the week and received one text message late at night from one of them which read simply 'tick tock, tick tock'.

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The uncle also manages the other Tick Tock diner, which is across the street from Penn Station, in Manhattan.

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Georgios Spyropoulos, the 45-year-old manager of the Tick Tock diner in Clifton, asked an undercover trooper posing as a hit man to kill Alexandros Sgourdos, 57, and to get rid of the body so it couldn't be found, authorities said.

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They really believed that their solution was best and that these tick-tock clocks simply could not be believed.

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And what kind of -- just on the tick-tock issue, what kind of information -- is he being updated by Justice?

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Bigger than an exclusive with Genzyme chief Henri Termeer on why he had to sell, bigger than the most elaborate tick-tock of how the deal got done.

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Mr. Simon's reflexive reliance on tick-tock punch-line comedy is the most dated aspect of his plays, especially the darker ones that he wrote in his later years.

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Tick-tock goes the tech clock, and with it, economic leadership.

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Tick-tock, one generation, the next generation.

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