• Twitter DogHouse, a new service that lets users stop following other users for a specified amount of time, has seen its traffic rise significantly as word spread that it was an option for muting Olympic spoilers.

    WSJ: Menu

  • In Venice, we crisscrossed the lagoon by ferry, visited a glass factory, rented a fleet of black gondolas, and had time for a quick stop at Prada before heading back out of town.

    NEWYORKER: The Grand Tour

  • "Our offer for talks with Iran for them to stop their nuclear program have been on the table for a long time, " she said on Thursday.

    CNN: Germany warns Iran of sanctions

  • We buy a sofa instead of a ski trip, not taking into account that we will get used to the sofa very quickly and that it will stop being a source of happiness, while the vacation will likely stay in our minds for a long time.

    WSJ: The Art of Buying Happiness With Money | Ask Ariely

  • Miss Wood said she saw her brother for the last time at a bus stop on Tuesday, but he had not seen her and they did not speak.

    BBC: London

  • He's obviously quite a busy person so maybe he could get off the train a stop earlier on the way to work or he may be able to get away for a lunch-time walk rather than sitting at his desk.

    BBC: Image of Tony Blair rowing

  • And while it probably goes without saying that at least a few still fetch coffee for the higher-ups, a fair number of administrative and executive assistants would probably look askance at a boss who asked them to stop answering phones, planning for meetings and dealing with the time-consuming minutiae of keeping an office functioning to do a personal task like that.

    CNN: 'Secretary' title is a blast from the past

  • Once upon a time in America the most your kids could wish for was a two-hour stop at a roadside attraction.

    NPR: Disneyland to Celebrate 50 Years

  • Etan vanished while walking to a school bus stop on his own for the first time.

    BBC: Etan Patz death: Man confesses to NYC killing in 1979

  • Mr Obama has said more clearly than any US president for a long time that settlement building must stop, while Mr Netanyahu is sticking to the established Israeli formula that there should be "natural growth" in existing settlements.

    BBC: US envoy backs 'Palestinian aspirations'

  • Emergency anti-shorting rules were put in place for a time last fall in financial stocks to stop a trading free fall.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • It is time we, as a society stop making excuses for why we become unhappy, cheat, or get divorced.

    FORBES: Readers Say

  • "We all agreed that to avoid a bad injury it is time for me to stop playing, " Ibanez said.

    BBC: Ibanez retires over head injuries

  • The end of Lehmans was swift but the bank had actually been throwing people overboard for some time in a desperate but failed attempt to stop itself sinking.

    BBC: Downfall of the banking 'masters'

  • Tyler Seguin scored his 10th goal for Boston, and Tuukka Rask made 16 saves but couldn't stop the Bruins from losing to Pittsburgh for the second time in less than a week.

    NPR: Penguins Beat Bruins 2-1 To Run Win Streak To 9

  • The president also needs to stop committing the U.S. to war for frivolous purposes, at a time when the military is overextended in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the budget is broken beyond measure.

    FORBES: It's Time for Congress To Vote On The Illegal War In Libya

  • For all those who bang on about stop smoking services being a waste of time...tell that to the thousands over 8 years who have added years to their lives and in some cases been around to survive their triple bypass operation!

    BBC: Scrubbing up: Your comments

  • Not many people subscribe to the notion that it is better for countries to borrow, except when they are talking about the U.S. It is time for a paradigm shift: Asian countries should stop being thrifty and learn to indulge in huge borrowing in order to build megaprojects, as did Malaysia's former prime minister, Dr. Mahathir.

    FORBES: Spend or Save?

  • It's time for Japan to stop its denial of the dispute and negotiate a peaceful solution.

    BBC: China morning round-up: Taiwan tie-up on islands?

  • Loans for shares was justified at the time as necessary to stop the return of a communist government.

    FORBES: Berezovsky vs. Abramovich: Insecure Oligarchs Spell Bad Russian Economy

  • It is not the first time Flintshire council has considered an application for a truck stop at Caerwys.

    BBC: Flintshire council defers A55 truck stop decision

  • "Every time you stop at a red light, contract your abs for a count of five and then let go and repeat, " she says.

    WSJ: Before Outer Space, He Conquers Continents

  • The supply to homes had to be switched off for a short time while engineers worked at the scene in Berkshire to stop the flow of water.

    BBC: Berkshire

  • But stop for the time it takes to make one machine - approximately four seconds - and a few things will become apparent that differ from factories past.

    BBC: American manufacturers come back home

  • It is a time to stop, look around, and think of all we take for granted.

    FORBES: No Gift Like the Present

  • After he told the story in our M and M meeting, the hospital implemented a "time out" protocol in the operating room for everyone to stop and agree on what operation would be performed, on what side of the body and whether the correct patient was indeed lying on the operating table, to make sure that kind of mistake would never happen again.

    CNN: More is not always better in medicine

  • Germany continued with austerity policies for a year after it came off Gold and did not recover in time to stop its politics degenerating into street fighting and fascism.

    BBC: Thinking outside the 1930s box

  • But the spot market, where vessels are chartered for specific trips or time periods, is very unpredictable, particularly since regulators put a stop two years ago to an arrangement between shipping lines (the top 15 of which control 80% of the market) to manage overcapacity by co-operating on routes and rates.

    ECONOMIST: Are container derivatives poised for bumper growth?

  • Time has come for us all to stop politicians and lobbyists from turning our great democracy into a nation where it is easier to buy a gun than to exercise our right to vote.

    CNN: A father's murder, a plea on gun control

  • The conclusion for me is we should stop whipping ourselves into a frenzy about the dismantling of Life Science venture capital every time a quarterly report comes out or a firm decides to bail out on raising their next fund.

    FORBES: Chicken Little & Life Science Venture Capital

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