While Congress dickers on this issue, all these people hear is the ticking of the clock.
"Because mutations start occurring at regular intervals in these genes as soon as a new species evolves - like the ticking of a clock - we can use them to trace the evolutionary history of a species back to its time of origin, " said Dr Hedges.
"The atomic clock is actually putting out an electronic signal which is essentially analogous to the ticking of a pendulum clock... which might tick once every second or once every couple of seconds, " says Dr McCarthy.
But even with the clock ticking, the Gang of 16 has two opponents perhaps even more formidable than Father Time: Big Oil and environmentalists.
Although she admitted that she would have preferred to have more time to enjoy being married before delving into motherhood, she was mindful of the ticking clock.
With budget negotiations breaking down into public bickering and finger-pointing, the clock is ticking toward a shutdown of the federal government at midnight.
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And then there is this: the ticking clock of any president's second term.
Base-load power is the minimum required to keep things ticking over the demands of three o'clock in the morning, or thereabouts.
The lesson of the Italian elections is that the clock is ticking.
With the interest clock ticking rates of 24% a year are not uncommon, the Times reports your leveraged lawyer has a huge incentive to settle a case quickly and with as little work as possible.
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Settled in his chambers around the corner from Turin's courts of justice, with a stately grandfather clock ticking in the background, Mr Grande Stevens appears every bit the establishment toff.
With the legislative clock ticking, the Democrats are suffering for their lack of backbone.
With the clock ticking towards the massive Covenant commemoration march at the end of the month, politicians and community leaders don't have the luxury to dwell on their principles.
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The clock is ticking for the OPLC because it has set a deadline of 2014 for the new tenants of the stadium to move in.
With England midfielder Paul Ince and Christian Ziege already assured of places, the clock is ticking for Gascoigne.
According to Andrew Ross Sorkin on MSNBC this morning, the clock is ticking for the feds to charge Cohen due to a statute of limitations on these charges set to expire this July.
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Maybe, but we wanted the clock to be ticking right at the beginning to focus us for the first critical months of company-building.
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With the handover clock ticking loudly, Britain two years ago instituted reforms allowing the direct or indirect election of all 60 legislators.
Abraham Conneh, of Oxfam Liberia, warned the clock was ticking on an international pledge made in 2000 to give every child access to primary education by 2015.
In Japan, the demographic clock is already ticking toward a kind of demographic doomsday.
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The clock was ticking down to its last minutes of the Drew Brees contract negotiation, a process that had dragged on for several months.
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Now, as debt negotiations continue to press on despite a ticking clock, McConnell is trying to persuade his own party of the seriousness of what will happen August 2.
This kind of urgency carries over to fiction, where a ticking clock a sense of time running out can make the pages seem to snap by with the speed of a second hand.
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The closest analog I know of is when you suddenly become aware of a ticking clock.
With the clock ticking down, Bordeaux had their best two chances - but a combination of poor finishing and superb goalkeeping cost them their chance of a last-four berth.
The only problem in prosecuting any charges is that a statute of limitations clock is ticking.
If I had not taken the battery out of his wall clock before we began the interview you would just have heard the clock ticking.
Years later, as they were entering the winter of their lives, I sought both of them to speak about what it was like to be working, with the clock ticking, against such a disease.
Version 2.0 could be completely different in terms of execution, especially if Facebook learns from this initial launch, but now the clock is ticking, and Google is likely to respond in a manner that complicates the playing field for any future launch.
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