1.   Another prime selling point is that biometric clocks eliminate so-called buddy punching, where an employee punches the card of another who is late or absent.

2.   But sitting in the middle of the office is a time clock that employees must punch daily.

3.   Tobin said that before he installed a biometric time clock in his four buildings, he had someone watch employees punch in and out.

4.   According to police investigations, the company employee punched his mother in the head and face early Monday at their house in Chiba prefecture, east of Tokyo.