Sure, we work for money, we drive our cars in gridlocked traffic for hours, and we endure crushing amounts of intricate and numbing detail to execute contracts.
The FAA says even though it limits the number of takeoff and landing slots at Newark, the airport is still scheduled at peak traffic most hours, so if a backlog develops, there's no lull in which to catch up.
It is hoped the move would help boost the local economy by allowing traffic outside shopping hours.
It requires closing the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge for hours, halting the flow of traffic between Brooklyn and Staten Island for hours.
Unlike standard Internet performance, which slows to a crawl during business hours due to heavy traffic, auction sites download more quickly during weekday business hours and are slowest in the evening.
Having researched the law, he spent six hours in traffic court and won his case.
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During peak commuting hours, traffic into and out of Silicon Valley--30 miles away--can be bumper-to-bumper.
Just in the county of Sussex, police dealt with more than 300 traffic collisions in 24 hours.
"We have carefully tracked store traffic, adjusting store hours to control labor while assuring we are open when we need to be, " he says.
San Francisco was deemed the third most frustrating city in which to drive, with commuters spending a traffic-delayed 61 hours behind the wheel each year.
After the term was introduced on Friday, it generated its own traffic becoming, within hours, the top (organic) trending topic on Twitter, according to the site WhatTheTrend.com.
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Some 3.5m people from Florida to North Carolina spent hours in traffic jams, fleeing (or, more accurately, crawling) from Hurricane Floyd, advertised as the biggest storm to threaten the United States mainland in living memory.
Insofar as the U.S. is concerned, commuters in the 10 most traffic-jammed cities were found to spend an average 42 hours a year sitting in traffic.
You can sit in traffic jams in India for hours, there are tons of bottlenecks.
The M6 was hardest hit as several lorries jack-knifed between Wigan and Standish, bringing traffic to a standstill for hours.
In all, Inrix figures that the average driver spent about 13 fewer hours sitting in traffic in 2008 than they did in 2007.
You'll have glanceable access to operating hours, surrounding traffic and recommended places -- that's not new, it's just surfaced in a more sensible way now.
Toth told the trooper he'd had a drink, which Witherspoon said was consumed at a restaurant two hours before the traffic stop, the trooper writes.
In comparison with cities of a similar size in population, drivers in the city of San Jose waste a cumulative of 10 million more annual hours sitting in traffic jams and suffer a 15% higher commute delay per peak-time traveler.
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And Democrats and Republicans are going to have to explain what implementation of the sequester will mean in terms of job loss, furloughs, reduced economic growth, closure of airport towers, or reduced hours for air traffic controllers at their airport.
The stream of traffic and posts has continued for hours, and has frequently caused errors to appear for those trying to access the site.
An evening reception feting the Ghetto Biennale artists coincided with Mr. Farrakhan's visit to a nearby mosque, creating a traffic jam that paralyzed downtown for hours.
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And a bus journey from Bath to Midsomer Norton - which should take 90 minutes - ended up taking six hours because of the traffic problems.
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Lebanon is relatively small, so getting up to the northern tip of the country or all the way down south takes only about two hours, barring horrendous traffic.
Works traffic will be limited to the hours of 0800 BST to 2000 BST, but for some residents it is the crowds attracted by the ship that are causing the most problems.
Each employee will lose one day of work every other week, which will amount to a 10 percent reduction in available controller work hours to staff air traffic facilities on any given day.
It will have serious consequences for families whose child will lose a Head Start slot, for workers on the border -- border security agents, for air traffic controllers who will have their hours cut.
But his ambition-fueled long hours at work and the traffic-snarled commutes of Boston doomed his marriage.
There were traffic problems on the Westlink for several hours as the Broadway off-slips were closed in both directions.
Many of the country's dynamic entrepreneurs waste hours each day stuck in traffic.
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