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2 million Americans reported having used an illegal drug during the previous year, up a tick from 11.
3) It "doesn't try hard enough to figure out what made him tick, and tick so loudly" (Tom Shales, the Washington Post ). (Find out more about the movie here; read Sarah Kerr's review in Slate .)
Office workers function by the tick of the clock, watching the minutes pass, while farmers live by the season, marking time with the twice yearly harvests.
And they all tick off examples of its extremities.
I don't mind his taking Bradley's foreign policy speech apart: I appreciate his listening to it and analyzing it so I don't have to (I would have had to find toothpicks to keep my eyes open), but the whole "oracle of wisdom" aspect to his approach is beginning to tick me off.