Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...successful cloture motion, which would limit debate, requires 60 votes. Far more than 60 senators have supported the treaty in a series of early-round test votes. Approval of a cloture motion Thursday would begin a 30-hour clock for debate, meaning a vote on the treaty could occur Friday...
...understand why Leona Helmsley might want a $45,000 silver clock modeled after a building owned by her billionaire husband, even if you wouldn't want one yourself. What's harder to understand is why she would bother breaking the law to get it. That, in fact, is part of her lawyer's answer to official charges that the Helmsleys cheated the Government of $4 million in taxes by wrongly charging off sundry personal gewgaws as business expenses: Would people so rich risk jail for an amount so (relatively) small...
...opened his mouth for rebuttal, but at that moment the clock struck 11. "Wow, The Late Show's on now, on Fox Network," he said, and even as he spoke his ethereal form began to waver. "So long, and think about what I said." And with that he was gone...
Kudrin stares down at the chessboard with perfect concentration, looking up from time to time like a swimmer surfacing from a deep dive. As Kudrin meditates, even the smallest background noises are amplified. The ticking of the timer clock on the table, the clinking of the chandelier on the wall, the splash of drinking water into plastic cups all seem unbearably nerve-racking. On the twelfth move Kudrin, playing Black, guilefully offers Hitech a pawn. Hitech can't resist taking it -- thereby opening up the board to a masterful attack. From then on, it's Kudrin's game. Mikhail...
...Mayfair tenants made overtures to the organization at a local mosque several weeks ago, and the Muslims responded with around-the-clock patrols. Known for the fiery black nationalism preached by their leader Louis Farrakhan, the Muslims have transformed the complex. Since the appearance of the guards in their trademark sober suits and bow ties, the drug dealers have made themselves scarce...