It is, after all, not just MMA where refereeing stoppages have been contested recently, but also after the amazing first boxing bout between George Groves and Carl Froch.
The great climaxes of sounds are acheived in side streets, as in West 45th Street, beneath our window, where occasional stoppages take place-the pangs of congestion increas ng till every horn is going-a united delirious scream of hate, every decibel charged with a tiny bit of poison.
In the following grid these sounds are arranged according to the place in the mouth where the stoppage was made and the activity of the vocal cords during and immediately after the stoppage: A labial sound is made with the lips, and a dental sound is made with the tip of the tongue against the back of the teeth.
Sectors whose production lines are automated or semi-automated, possessing the pace of work determined by machinery where work stoppage is not possible will be excluded.
Myself, I've always felt the Dallas arena had the NHL's best assortment of stoppage-time tunes; any barn where they play Led Zeppelin's "Custard Pie" can't be all bad.
Oil prices fell by nearly $1 a barrel after labor unions halted a strike in Nigeria, Africa's biggest oil producer, where the work stoppage had shut down most major economic activity.
Wright scored Arsenal's second goal of the match in stoppage time, on a night where Houston admitted it was "my worst night in Europe".
Welcome to sports television, reality-style, where there are no stoppages in play and there is plenty of action on the field, and off.
Simmons, in turn, has been known to behave like a rebellious teenager, going on a mini-work stoppage and creating his own blog where at least one unedited version of his column was posted.
This research posits that certain common knowledge about when the stoppage occurs creates a "coordination moment" where group members simultaneously engage in revision and attempt to re-coordinate on a higher contribution level.
