A countdown starts over games-console imagery of outer space and smoky skies.
When you hold the side button, a countdown starts.
So many coxswains were raising their hands to show that they weren't ready to race that the officials decided to go to a countdown start.
For Dr. Ava T. Shamban, a dermatologist in Santa Monica, Calif., the countdown started five weeks ago when several dozen actors and agents, along with a few spouses and siblings, began coming in for laser procedures and facial injections, she said.
As the countdown started, there was a surge of bodies as everyone threw up their hands to scream "Happy New Year".
Paul O'Connell was prominent, Jerry Flannery a bustling bundle of energy even as the countdown started.
So as the countdown started I did this, except it wasn't a wall, it was a window, that broke, because I fell through it.
18 min: "Come now Jacob, maybe the Countdown started because some UEFA bright spark suggested using Europe's "The Final Countdown" before games, but things got lost in translation?
Other staffers said that Mr. Olbermann, whose "Countdown" started on Current in June, was initially supportive of the channel, but changed his tone toward the end of the year, possibly because of management changes and the technical problems.
He took the coffee out to the main hall with him, and took another gulp as the first notes of Europe's "Final Countdown" started playing over the cavernous room's loudspeakers.
