Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Attention Northwest passengers: Midnight EDT is the deadline before the airline's pilots go on strike. In anticipation, Northwest has already canceled 400 flights this weekend. Negotiations, as they say, are proceeding around the clock...
...along this story has been less about crime than punishment. From the nails in Kathleen Willey's tires to the jokes about Linda Tripp's chins to the around-the-clock evisceration of Monica Lewinsky, the story has nourished a culture of cruelty that sacrifices empathy for entertainment. If Clinton has been more mercilessly ridiculed than past Presidents, we can excuse it as partly a response to his own decisions--beginning with his decision to run for office. But the other civilians caught up in the story never ran for anything. They may have done something foolish or wrong...
Gitlin and other journalism scholars are hard-pressed to remember any other story that has triggered such furor. It has forced some healthy choices, a necessary filtering reaction to the information age: so much is available around the clock that viewers and readers become editors themselves, making judgments not about what they can find out but about what they want to know. "The general discourse had been getting cruder and cruder," observes Judith Martin, a.k.a. Miss Manners. "Privacy and discretion had almost disappeared from the general public usage before the scandal. Now that the salacious nosiness has been carried...
...gulps, awkward in his ponderous regalia, But his eye stays rapt, Elephantine, Arctic-- A god, on earth for the first time, With the clock of love and death in his body...
...They were very unprofessional." The Rogerses refused to let them test Rebecca's blood until last week, when their lawyer told them a judge would probably order the test anyway. Hospital officials deny they were insensitive to the Rogerses and say they provided the family access to around-the-clock counseling...