Word: clocking
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...fourth estate—and its newspaper wing in particular—is no priesthood of truth tellers. Scandals at the most venerable broadsheets are regular enough to set your clock by, and the printing of Friday night football scores in every hamlet across the land is in no guise the highest form of civic duty. The newspaper industry certainly was, however, one of the plumpest cash cows in the landscape of American business for numerous decades. As local newspapers survived on classified advertising, the economics of the industry invariably led to a monopoly paper emerging in literally every local...
...Martin, though, put Harvard back on top, taking a pass from junior Sara Flood and scoring her second goal with 10:23 on the clock. Outshooting Yale by a total of 23-17, and holding a 16-13 advantage in ground balls, the Crimson offense continued to attack. Two minutes later, Martin scored another goal...
Finally, with only one second remaining on the clock, Flood completed her offensive trifecta, with an unassisted goal...
...offensive momentum alternated between the Great Danes and Harvard for the remainder of the half. Martin scored off of a Halpern assist at 12:05 and registered two more unassisted tallies at 9:00 and 5:03. Halpern also found the net herself as the clock wound down in the first, scoring unassisted...
...carbon emissions. If we got 80% of our electricity from nukes today, as France does, we'd emit nearly a third less carbon. It would be the greenhouse-gas equivalent of taking all our cars off the road. So it would be nice if we could turn back the clock...