At noon time in Rio, at least 19 people were reported missing.
Many were working long hours in factories and to sustain them a noon-time meal was essential.
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Branches began to open at noon local time (10:00 GMT) and closed at 18:00 (16:00 GMT).
Bond trading was halted by noon Eastern time on a recommendation from the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association.
As of noon Central time, 17 inches of snow had fallen in Amarillo, the weather service said in a Twitter post.
At noon local time on Thursday, Algerian forces attacked as the militants tried to move some of their captives from the facility.
The plant in northeast China's Jilin province was still burning as of noon local time, the official Xinhua news agency said, citing local sources.
The main explosion took place around noon local time (07:30 GMT).
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Downloaded three million times since it debuted in 2011, it is the most popular of the same-day booking apps, with rooms available from noon, local time, daily.
Individual tickets go on sale today, Monday February 11, at Noon Eastern Standard Time on a first come, first served basis for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.
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Paris time, noon in New York, Grasso found he was making calls to Johnston every 15 minutes.
All week I'd think of the conversation I'd have with my parents the following Sunday after church, collecting imagined victories, social engagements, popularity, good behavior, although I had not told them I was going to Mass every Sunday or how little I missed the long silence of Quaker Meeting, only that noon was the best time for them to call.
The significance of Noon is that is the same time Rush Limbaugh airs his program.
Banks will open their doors between noon and 18:00 local time (10:00-16:00 GMT), the Cypriot central bank said.
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The company will even deliver the same day if you order by noon in the recipient's time zone.
In order to choose a relevant deal for the user at the correct time, location information would need to be collected about the user before noon, even if the Groupon mobile application is not running on the device at that time.
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Built-in dolls come out of the clock at noon each day to dance around and tell the time.
Even my dog knows that if you get out of bed before, say, noon you're going to have a bad time.
Geeksphone opened its store on Tuesday at 8am Madrid time, and was out of stock by around noon.
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They had plans to stop on the 8-hour drive just a few hours short of the prison destination so he could have time to spare when he was due to show up before noon on Monday.
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