Word: clocking
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It’s just after five o’clock on a Monday, and I’m in a room with 36 strangers watching a soccer match between the Colombian National team and their Peruvian counterparts...
...Raquira—a Spanish relic that lives off tourism and still looks as if it were 1562—I buy a souvenir; a handcrafted Spanish Caravel. It’s two o’clock on a Saturday and they can’t make change. It’s their first sale...
...gold, and complete disdain for anything east of the 405 Freeway, including all Ivy League schools. Those were the ones you didn’t get into, the ones that you talk about with your friends when you’re sharing your GPAs and SAT scores around the clock. Privacy? Nonexistent. Respect for success? It’s called jealousy...
...clock is ticking, and it may tick a little faster now," says Pat Steele, executive vice president in charge of Albertson's high-tech experiment in Seattle. His online sales have jumped 300% in the week since Webvan's demise. "The next three to six months will be the telling time...
Kerry and Kay Danes' small world is defined by heat and separation. At seven o'clock in the morning, guards rouse them from their stifling communal cells and lead them and their fellow inmates into the dusty exercise yard of a Lao prison. Forbidden to speak to each other, the Danes communicate in stolen glances and occasional whispered words. This is not the way their new life was supposed to work out. Moving from Australia to Vientiane with their three young children, aged seven to 15, was to be an exotic adventure in a city of decaying French colonial mansions...