Commercial flight numbers and terminal passenger numbers were rising almost without interruption between 1994 and 2007, when the global financial crisis interrupted.
That is because readers immersed in a storyline want above all not to be interrupted, and all online media teem with distractions (even a hyperlink is an interruption).
Walking between these figures feels like an interruption; being a spectator is itself a performance.
It's embarrassingly safe, in fact – the Conservatives have held this seat without interruption since 1931 and, in two-thirds of the elections since then, have gained more than 50% of the vote.
And, as someone with faint claustrophobia who clutches their mobile at all times, even when it's off, such interruption did come as weird relief.
Further pressed on whether Djokovic might have benefited from the interruption on Friday night because Murray was building momentum, he said: "I'm not going into that because, no matter what I say, it's not anything that will be acceptable to anybody.
Dong Keyong, a professor at Beijing's Renmin University, said it avoids "the interruption of people's regular work and life".
The summer blockbuster season has suffered a significant interruption from the World Cup, and exhibitors will be pinning their hopes on the major films arriving in July and August.
Apnoea causes the walls of the throat to relax and narrow during sleep, causing an interruption to normal breathing.
The previous day, the State Department had likewise announced the temporary closure of its mail-sorting facility (and the interruption of its postal services), after a worker there was found to have anthrax.
These are the "athletes' games", returning the Olympic focus to sport after years of interruption by politics; the "green games", with an athletes' village run on solar power and recycled water; and the "wired games", where contenders can create their own home page and check messages from fans across the world on a site especially created for Olympians.
