Word: clocks
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...ball 25 yards from the endzone, and has the opportunity to score any way they can. After a score or a turnover, the other offense comes in and must match or beat the score of its opponent. There is no time limit, save for the 25-second clock. Overtime means one thing: a team must score in order to survive...
President Reagan this summer nominated the conservative jurist to replace retiring Justice Louis F. Powell, who had been the Court's swing vote in many key cases. Liberal organizations are working to prevent Bork's confirmation, charging he will circumvent crucial civil rights decisions and set back the clock of progress...
Nothing like it had ever happened in the long history of auto negotiations. The contract between Ford and the United Auto Workers expired last Monday at midnight, and the company's 104,000 union members would ordinarily have gone out on strike. But the clock was stopped, and the two sides, tantalizingly close to an agreement, went on talking. Finally, after a 28-hour marathon bargaining session that ended about 60 hours beyond the original strike deadline, settlement came on Thursday morning. U.A.W. President Owen Bieber was not around for the handshakes; the strain of the negotiations had sent...
...fills Chronos with natural events that occur at unnatural speeds: clouds churn like white water crashing against rocks, water spins dizzyingly and car lights advance so rapidly they been one bright squiggles against a backdrop of blackness. The moon moves across the sky like a second hand on a clock. A lake fills with water and then suddenly drys up. Food decays faster than it could ever be eaten...
...Harvard players released their defensive assignments, anticipating a 35-second shot-clock violation by MIT. But one of the other three Harvard players was called for a penalty, and MIT was temporarily up six men to three. Harvard escaped the situation unscathed...