As we start another year, like clockwork, all the resolution stories start to appear.
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On the technical front though, once again today this pair has been trading like clockwork.
Visa and Mastercard are fortresses, growing 20% per year like clockwork, despite the law of large numbers.
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But like clockwork, every five years, when there's an election here, there is an awful lot of violence.
She's the only remotely troubled object in the frame: The band is clicking like clockwork, happy and serene.
The chip industry has pulled off this trick, like clockwork, for 41 years.
It takes place like clockwork on the sun, once about every 11 years.
They got the name because every year or so, like clockwork, Congress mindlessly continues them for another year or so.
And like clockwork, three struggling phone vendors issue warnings about six weeks after the EU debt crisis really started boiling over.
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Now, whenever gas prices shoot up, like clockwork, you see politicians racing to the cameras, waving three-point plans for two dollar gas.
Like clockwork, Google is expected to announce another great quarter on Thursday.
Now, like clockwork, the banks and politicians who curry their favor are already trying to stop this fee from going into effect.
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At the same time, Mr. Forstall ran the iOS mobile software team like clockwork and was widely respected for his ability to perform under pressure.
These dates can be used to predict drug approvals like clockwork.
Comfortable in the knowledge their couch-potato customers would pony up whatever amount showed up on their monthly tab, cable companies pushed price hikes through like clockwork.
From that point onward, though, the system went like clockwork.
Pretty much like clockwork, the wines get 5-stars from Decanter and Quarterly Review of Wines just about every year, and consistently are rated between 91-98 points by Wine Spectator.
Nearly every aspect of the festival ran like clockwork.
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And like clockwork, despite trailing by 20 at one point in the third, the Knicks fought their way back in it, holding Boston scoreless on eight of its first nine possessions after the break.
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Like clockwork, stocks this morning climbed higher.
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One result is that, like clockwork every few years, someone publishes a study finding that relatively few some research indicates less than 10 percent of even effectively formulated strategies carry through to successful execution and reach their espoused financial goals.
He looks back now at the seasons he had when he was younger hitting .280 to .300, averaging more than 40 doubles, 35 homers, and 120 RBI, like clockwork and what sticks out the most is how simple, how easy it felt.
While mainstream merchants like Wal-Mart have been posting low single-digit percentage gains in comparable store sales, more exclusive outfits like Saks, Nordstrom and Neiman Marcus like clockwork have been posting gains of 10%-25% in monthly sales comparisons for most of the past year.
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Bureaucratic systems and processes were put in place to make the system tick over like a boring clockwork machine.
Its elliptical orbit actually crosses Neptune's path, yet the timing of the two planets' respective motions ensures that, like figures in a clockwork model, they never collide.
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