Last year the convention center jettisoned about a dozen supervisors and placing 23 of its 44 full-time events workers on a call-in-as-needed status, all part of an effort to slash operating costs and free up tax revenue that the city of Minneapolis might use elsewhere.
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In the study, one on-call paediatrician was questioned in every hospital providing acute in-patient care for children.
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Before urgent surgeries were squeezed in by whichever on-call surgeon had a break in the action.
He said in future scientists might be put on an on-call rota so queries could be answered in a timely fashion.
For more money, hired dating operatives could listen in on the follow-up phone call, texting advice in real time.
This provision would prioritize spending on debt service and Social Security to give them both first-call on revenues in the event the debt limit is reached.
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The two women are disc jockeys on a top Havana radio station, and this exchange took place during their call-in show on the eve of the pope's arrival.
The 25-year-old front rower, who was on holiday in Bali when he received the call-up, joins up with the squad as cover for Corey Flynn.
Years later he was on a radio call-in show in Europe and he related that story.
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New regulations on roaming charges - the cost of making or receiving a call while abroad - became law in all 27 EU member states on Monday.
It means doctors can no longer work the hours they used to - either pacing the wards or on call - and so it is just not possible in a day-and-age when money is tight to employ all the new medics needed to staff specialist services in each hospital.
One important consequence would be that in the next banking crisis, the Bank of England would not - in theory - have to call on the Treasury to put quite so much money into a Royal Bank of Scotland or an HBOS that was facing collapse, because the creditors of those banks would be forced to become shareholders.
Even before the prime minister has uttered a word of his long-awaited speech on Europe - a speech in which he is expected to call for a re-negotiation of the UK's relationship with the EU followed by a referendum - David Cameron is being warned about the consequences.
And you have to be right on your short-term call in the price of the metal itself.
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Alternately, viewers could call in questions on an toll-free telephone line.
Former White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan learned that lesson for himself, when, as the story goes, he hung up on Nancy during a telephone call in 1987 -- and later turned to CNN to discover that he was being replaced.
Premiums surged on the news, with price premiums skyrocketing by double-digit figures on virtually every call in the July series.
You may think you have the worst job in America but are you always on call and facing a deadline, working in a high-stress environment, all for very little pay?
Now the Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) wants to dig out Savannah's shipping channel even further, to 48 feet, in order to attract the larger vessels expected to call on east-coast ports once the expanded Panama Canal opens in 2014.
One alternative you could consider amid the global uncertainty is a stock-replacement strategy, where you sell stocks that you like and buy in-the-money or longer-dated call options on those same equities.
This shift is enabling education technology companies to fulfil the call in education for on-demand, highly targeted and relevant online learning and open resources.
The Gamer may be built for fun, but it's all business on the outside -- meaning it avoids the siren call to cover itself in loud colors, over-designed speaker grills and "hardcore" accents.
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They have just finished several years of research on primary materials - what we'll call stuff - and put it in a book, Sustainable Materials With Both Eyes Open, free to download and fascinating for umpteen reasons.
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The conference underlined the importance of industry in digitization and digital preservation and adopted a call on industry to ensure long-term accessibility to information which is contained in legacy formats.
Selling in- and out-of-the-money call options on Marvell Technology Group has been a popular pastime for some pessimistic players recently and today is no exception.
Ford, in return, gets first call on any auto-related ceramics products Ceradyne develops.
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First, the IMF did not fully estimate the possible losses on loans in what bankers call "forbearance" - which is where banks have allowed borrowers in difficulty to temporarily cease payments.
On a conference call Tuesday afternoon, QuinStreet CEO Douglas Valenti blamed near-term weakness in part on increased volatility in the auto insurance segment.
In a conference call, Goldman executives agreed that giving in at all would cast doubt on every mortgage-derivatives deal arranged by the company, according to a person familiar with the call.
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