The seconds till showtime tick down, and the chat box lights up: "Good luck".
They had resisted as Casillas watched the minutes tick down, Buffon particularly.
He happily spent the game watching Dice-K's earned run average tick down with each out: to 7.02 from 8.23.
Dominic Edridge, a transport analyst at Commerzbank, said he expected the ruling to cause Ryanair's margins to "tick down".
But Croatia, on their way out, were still happier to see the clock tick down than Spain.
As the days before its start tick down, Mr. Weisman does confess to missing -- ever so slightly -- the sports world.
That will come at the end of this week, on Friday, Oct. 5. Will the unemployment rate go up again, hold steady, or tick down a bit?
As the days tick down to Microsoft's introduction of its Surface tablet, the company has revealed how it plans to price the product — more like Apple than Amazon.
None of that was lost on Williams, who watched the final seconds tick down on his and his alma mater's first national title.
As the minutes tick down on the show, we hear from Adam Lambert's parents talking about how, at an early age he liked singing, musicals, theatricality.
At the front of the main conference hall in Bonn sits a clock with red numbers that tick down towards a UN meeting in Copenhagen in December.
