Para.1 Americans believe no one stands still. If you are not moving ahead, you are falling behind. This attitude results in a nation of people committed to researching,experimenting and exploring. Time is one of the two elements that Americanssave carefully, the other being labor. Para.2 “We are slaves to nothing but the clock, ” it has been said. Time istreated as if it were something almost real. We budget it, save it, waste it,steal it, kill it, cut it, account for it; we also charge for it. It is aprecious resource. Many people have a rather acute sense of the shortness ofeach lifetime. Once the sands have run out of a person’s hourglass, they cannotbe replaced. We want every minute to count.