For these reasons, all day and night shift inspectors carried out a work stoppage today that paralyzed the production lines.

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Programmers--sorry, seamen--hired from places like India and Russia would have their own cabins, work eight- or ten-hour stretches on either a day or night shift and have the rest of the time to sleep, play shuffleboard or take a water taxi to shore.

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Shifts should rotate clockwise, from day to evening to night shift.

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There were rules against noise, against music, because the people on the night shift slept all day.

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So fresh off an all-day shift, he barreled down the highway and battled the blaze all night with thousands of others.

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The evening shift may leave a muddle behind for the night shift to sort out, and the night shift may get its own back by bequeathing a worse mess for the day shift.

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Many of the miners took an unofficial day's holiday for the royal visit, which meant only 117 reported for work on the Monday night shift.

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