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So that really got my attention, and we started to work on this nearly around the clock, because I thought, "Well, we don't know what the target is.
I can't see this clock and I can't see the timing, so holy God, woohoo!
I'm just a clock watcher.
And there are three seconds left on the clock.
My clock is ticking.
There's a little clock in the lower left-hand corner.
Volunteers answer the phone around the clock every day of the year, and calls are confidential.
So you might have a graphical countdown clock, or they would have a line of asterisks that would fill out from left to right on a screen.
It's a high school sport where you have 12 cups you have to stack and unstack against the clock in a prescribed order.
He has turned off his cell phone, his laptop, his pager, his alarm clock.
You look up, half-erased chalkboard, you can see that perfectly written cursive alphabet, the pull-down maps, you can hear, tick, tick, tick, ticking on the wall, that industrial clock.
It reads like a clock.
Waiting seven minutes for a train with a countdown clock is less frustrating and irritating than waiting four minutes, knuckle biting, going, "When's this train going to damn well arrive?"
The alternative is to turn back the clock, with great difficulty, and remake that decision.
We can't turn back the clock on decades of overfishing in countless regions of the ocean that once seemed inexhaustible.
CA: Gwynne, let's wind the clock back.
When Homer Simpson needs to imagine the most remote possible moment of not just the clock, but the whole freaking calendar, he comes up with 0400 on the birthday of the Baby Jesus.
This is sort of a self-portrait taxidermy time capsule piece called A Point Just Passed, in which I project myself on top of a time card punch clock, and it's up to you.
If you want to choose to punch that punch card clock, you actually age me.
So I start as a baby, and then if you punch the clock, you'll actually transform the baby into a toddler, and then from a toddler I'm transformed into a teenager.
And if you punch the punch card clock a hundred times in one day, the piece goes black and is not to be reset until the next day.
Y2K, the dotcom bubble, stressing about whose party you're going to go to as the clock strikes midnight, before the champagne goes flat, and then there's that inchoate yearning that was felt, I think, by many, that the millennium, that the year 2000, should mean more, more than just a two and some zeroes.
It even beeps, because it's an alarm clock, after all.
So let's unpack those very quickly, and I'm going to move through these very, very, very fast because I can see that clock counting down.
Other subjects came up almost never, including living conditions that to me looked close to prison life: 10 or 15 workers in one room, 50 people sharing a single bathroom, days and nights ruled by the factory clock.
Roll the clock forward 30 years.
In terms of coal, we'd need to burn 34 of these wheelbarrows every minute around the clock every day for an entire year to get two terawatt hours of electricity.
And extreme sleep deprivation like jetlag can throw off your biological clock, wreaking havoc on your sleep schedule.
Regulate your metabolism by setting consistent resting and waking times to help orient your body’s biological clock.
This clock, or circadian rhythm, is also sensitive to light, so avoid bright lights at night to help tell your body that it’s time for sleep.
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