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  • " Within only two years of the start of our new facility, we have already exceeded first-shift capacity due to high demand of our vehicles, " Wilfried Aulbur , managing director and chief executive at Mercedes-Benz India, told reporters.

    Mercedes-Benz India to Expand Production Anirban Chowdhury 2010

  • A better solution would something like having a few drivers come in early and take out some of the community shuttles to pick up the rest of the first-shift drivers which would allow for not building such a large lot.

    04 « February « 2009 « Stephen Rees's blog 2009

  • A better solution would something like having a few drivers come in early and take out some of the community shuttles to pick up the rest of the first-shift drivers which would allow for not building such a large lot.

    TransLink parking lot rolls over Marpole residents « Stephen Rees's blog 2009

  • Current plans call for the center to be closed for 24 hours, starting with workers' first-shift Tuesday morning.

    NASA Watch: News: August 2008 Archives 2008

  • Current plans call for the center to be closed for 24 hours, starting with workers' first-shift Tuesday morning.

    NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: August 2008 Archives 2008

  • She had come on the bridge as usual, to take the first-shift report, and now she frowned at the data scrolling past on the screen as if she could do more than stare at the words and numbers.

    Command Decision Moon, Elizabeth 2007

  • But no matter what hour the noisy celebrators returned to camp, the relieved first-shift guards would gallop off to town to salvage what joys they could from the waning night.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • Ky intended to call Stella when she got back to the ship, but the temporal chart revealed that local time on Cascadia Station was 0200; that gave her an excuse to delay another few hours until first-shift, the usual business day.

    Command Decision Moon, Elizabeth 2007

  • Up earlier than usual today as I've been trying to shift my sleep schedule more to first-shift.

    audio sampling and people who think "the matrix" is real badger 2002

  • I'm hopeful I'll be able to reset my sleep cycle to something approximating first-shift sometime if I can avoid backsliding.

    club badger 2001

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