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   Stop-The-Clock
   Stop-the-clock is Northern Irish slang for a pessimist.
   Found op http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/ZSD.HTM
   
   
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   Stop-The-Clock
   Stop-the-clock is Northern Irish slang for a pessimist.
   Found op http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/ZSD.HTM
   
   
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   Stopping the clock
   Stopping the clock is a controversial practice in American and Canadian legislative procedure in which a legislature literally or notionally stops the clock (or moves the hands backwards), usually for the purpose of meeting a constitutional or statutory deadline. Riddick`s Rules of Procedure notes,...
   Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stopping_the_clock
   
   

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