• Facebook, however, takes the view that the information customers necessarily divulge in the course of using Facebook becomes Facebook's property to use as Facebook sees fit -- unless of course the customer affirmatively opts out by ticking the correct boxes in Facebook's notoriously confusing and repeatedly changing privacy settings.

    CNN: Facebook needs to earn your trust

  • "I'm not saying that the human race is imminently doomed but it's also clear that the clock is ticking and time is running out in order to take action to avoid the escalating damages which could make the whole process unstoppable, " he told CNN.

    CNN: Six degrees of devastation

  • Finally, the Fed is laying the groundwork for the next financial crisis, with out of control monetary policies creating a ticking inflation time bomb, and the resulting contractionary monetary tightening when the Fed decides the inflation is getting out of hand.

    FORBES: The Fiscal Cliff and America's Coming Recession

  • "The clock is ticking on finding debris before they spread out and before they sink or disappear, " he said.

    BBC: Debris 'not from Air France jet'

  • New Zealand all-rounder Franklin then received support from Ian Saxelby, who helped keep the scoreboard ticking closer to the target until given out lbw after tea to Claude Henderson for 17.

    BBC: Franklin cannot prevent Leics win

  • Denly was caught in the ninth over by Ali Brown for 52, but after Martin van Jaarsveld went for just three, Justin Kemp (30) and Darren Stevens (31 not out) kept the runs ticking over.

    BBC: Quick-fire Denly seals Kent win

  • But with the seconds ticking down Bath regained the ball and spun it out wide where Crockett put boot to ball for Banahan to out-jump Cueto and score the match-winning try.

    BBC: Bath 24-20 Sale

  • 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.

    WSJ: Word Craft: Benjamin Percy, Author of Red Moon, on the Ticking Clock

  • So we desperately need to find ways of making basic chemical materials out of CO2 to keep the chemical industries ticking over.

    CNN: Turning carbon dioxide into fuel

  • Some people have asked me if investment advisers charge like lawyers do, with the clock ticking all the time and every single photo copy charged out to a particular client.

    FORBES: Is Your Investment Adviser Earning His Keep? Part 2: Your Adviser's Pay Structure

  • While other speakers over the course of the three-day convention offered feel-good moments, the heart of Romney's speech was an impassioned ticking through of the five-point economic plan he lays out at every campaign stop.

    CNN: Five things we learned from Day Three of the RNC

  • "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.

    BBC: Meet the world's director of time

  • The breakout this week after the stress tests were largely positive and the Federal Reserve acknowledged the economy had improved since January ushered in a new wave of bullishness with the yield on the 10-year Treasury ticking up to 2.3% stoking the theory that money rushing out of bonds could flow into stocks.

    FORBES: 'Relentless' Rally Still Vulnerable: Analyst

  • In reviewing the memo I banged out the other day, I see I did a good job of ticking off four specific stories I'd recently written, but I was too vague when I referred to "all kinds of projects" I'd done.

    FORBES: Careers

  • 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.

    BBC: Cambodia: Silenced by a brutal past

  • With the clock ticking away on the deadline for the one year payroll tax cut ( this one, as it turns out, is a real deadline), Democrats and Republicans in the Senate are fighting to see who can outmaneuver each other.

    FORBES: Congress Still Struggles With Payroll Tax Cut Proposals

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