While games can go longer for extra time and possibly penalties in knockout rounds, game times are usually predictable, and much shorter than other major American sports, which have commercial breaks, timeouts and other general stoppages in play, which also halt the clock.
General strike, stoppage of work by a substantial proportion of workers in a number of industries in an organized endeavour to achieve economic or political objectives.
Arriving in Memphis on March 18 and declaring that "all labor has dignity," King spontaneously urged a general work stoppage -- not just in sanitation, but workers of all kinds throughout the city.
And this week the main trade-union confederation tried to bring the country to a halt in a two-day general strike the most ambitious stoppage since the 1980s.The students want education, which in Chile relies heavily on private funding, to be turned into a non-profit, state-dominated, system.
In recent weeks Greece has been disrupted by two general strikes with work stoppages on the increase and pensioners noisily staging protest rallies.
Others were angered by the protest, saying the country could not afford the stoppage, the first general strike by the country's top two unions since 1988.
The walkout yesterday by up to 750,000 local authority workers was hailed by Unison general secretary Dave Prentis as the biggest stoppage since the General Strike in 1926.
Transients were generated by the sudden stoppage of the pump.
Trade unions said more than a million people marched in 50 demonstrations on a day of nationwide stoppages billed as a "general strike".The strike was called to protest against the government's pension reforms.
His actions led to work stoppages and finally a general strike that precipitated the coup.
