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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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There were rules against noise, against music, because the people on the night shift slept all day.
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On that day, before her waitressing shift, she and a co-worker went to visit a pagoda in Siem Reap.
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Italians will take much persuading that the arrest, on the very day of a power shift in Rome, was a coincidence, even if its significance remains obscure.
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The jobs involve dropping in to support several different people in one day, working on a rota and a shift system.
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Surrounded by computers and handheld devices at work and at home, people are accustomed to having e-mail within reach nearly all day, making it hard to shift gears on vacation, says Kate Muller, director of psychology training at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York.
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Consultants have told the BBC there are also concerns over staffing the emergency department, covering holiday and sick leave, and the fact that the rest of the hospital system does not follow a seven-day working pattern shift, which has a knock on effect especially at the weekends.
BBC: Northern Ireland
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The Irish News editorial has been seen as a shift in tone for the newspaper, especially coming on a day when the UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is in Belfast trying for political progress.
BBC: Policing: newspaper's call to nationalists
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This small-seeming shift in approach, these snapshots that seize on a minute in the day of a life, open a window on mortality.
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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.
BBC: Cadeby Main mining disaster marked 100 years on
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If you shift the Keeling definition of a day to the same as ours then we do agree almost completely on the measurements.
BBC: Carbon dioxide passes symbolic mark