It was only the illness of one of his children which prompted him to ask to change shifts in order to help his wife.
But beyond the often costly out-of-pocket finances, these responsibilities cause nearly half of caregivers to miss work, change shifts or even miss career advancement opportunities.
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Goodyear asked the staff to change production shifts so that the plant could churn out tires for agriculture machines and cars around the clock.
State broadcaster CCTV quoted unidentified workers as saying the fire broke out during a change of shifts when about 350 workers were at the plant, owned by Jilin Baoyuanfeng Poultry Co.
Today, we see the confluence of a deep recession driving behavioral change and shifts in the demographic distribution of the population poised to impact the real estate market in unexpected ways.
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I've seen it from the factory floor when I was working the graveyard shift and we'd have lunch there on the change of the shifts and I'd be ankle-deep in water at the Murray Ohio Bicycle plant where I was running a machine that was so loud I couldn't hear myself yell if I wanted to.
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The reform panel pushed the Camden Police Department to create computerized crime maps, and to change police beats and shifts to focus on the worst areas and times.
Finally, heed the very real marketplace shifts that demand change, they said.
According to Dr Elsner, this change is related to sudden shifts in the position of the long-term area of high pressure that sits near the Azores.
But investors should keep in mind that, just as the drug-coated stent market already went through two big shifts, it could change again--in a heartbeat.
When an entity shifts focus from how to change and grow to how to avoid loss, at that moment it begins to die.
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When all of these shifts occur, true and lasting change will ensue.
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It provides layers of observations on local shifts in the environment relevant to climate change issues today.
The RMT has been calling for staff to be moved to 12-hour rosters, which would see the number of working days change from five to three but the length of shifts rise from eight hours to 12.
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One's perspective shifts easily, however, when targets change and the defendants themselves are no longer aggressively litigious corporations with an arsenal of filing cabinets spilling over with intellectual property, as was the case when one company used a recently granted patent to go after a number of podcasting networks.
It said proposals to change shift patterns were "radical" and meant workers shifts could be changed with just 23 hours notice.
The role of women can continue to change, and I will be interested to see what shifts come over these next four years.
When something else comes along and attention shifts to a new program, or when disruptive change occurs, they are prime candidates for elimination or inattention.
Every change on the factory floor that allows workers to adapt to sudden shifts in demand reduces the excess capacity of people and plant space Dell must maintain to get products out on time.
The shifts in these ecosystem boundaries provide an index of global climate change, which can be observed and compared in all continents of the world, using standard sets of climatic measurements, such as precipitation and temperature.
Phase Shifts regardless of physical makeup follow some patterns, and are basically a change from one level of order to another.
It can take years for shifts in public perception to work their way through the court system, change judicial views, and so turn the ship round.
Change has happened quickly in the way shoppers research and buy, but adapting to those shifts has been slow for traditional retailers like Sears.
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As we saw with NII Holdings, when the competitive landscape shifts and the management team is not able to respond it may be time for a change.
Provide regular updates on shifts in the external environment (markets, competition, regulations, etc.) and when things change, explain why you will still win.
If the rate of change in the last 10 years is anything to go by, work and management are set to undergo some significant shifts in the next decade.
In his new book, Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything, psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman argues that comprehensive, targeted and organized environmental data can trigger real market shifts among consumers.
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