Frieman, a local activist and nonprofit consultant, was driving in a carpool lane during restricted hours on October 2, 2012.

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Recognizing the utter failure, the California Department of Transportation and county governments have begun allowing solo drivers into diamond lanes during restricted hours .

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Dr Summers, who has apologised repeatedly for his remarks, said later that the shortage of senior female academics was partly caused by child-minding duties, which restricted working hours.

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During the first stint they could sleep up to nine hours per night, and during the other they were restricted to just four hours.

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The firm said it also suffered from two of the busiest shopping days in the period falling on a Sunday, when shopping hours are restricted.

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Regal up until now has never restricted anyone to anything below 40 hours.

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Last year a product development manager named Suibin Zhang at wireless-hardware maker Netgear allegedly spent two hours downloading 78 documents from Marvell's extranet, a site restricted to customers.

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