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- noun Plural form of
idling .
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No Review the many lives affected by GM Track changes in GM's sales and share price Key players in GM's overhaul From icon to bankruptcy, a timeline Plant closures and idlings announced Monday Write to John D. Stoll at john. stoll@wsj.com,
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The company said the idlings will be completed within 75 days and affect 3,000 employees, or roughly 7% of its domestic work force, and some 430 growers who supply chicken to the plants.
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There is a host of widely different sorts of toiling and idlings, engaging in any one of which is thinking.
Gilbert Ryle Tanney, Julia 2007
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"We're probably going to see a situation whereby there will be some plant idlings and shutdowns in the first quarter of next year, and possibly the second quarter, to make sure inventories are kept in check," said Erich Merkle an analyst at IRN Inc., an automotive forecaster in Grand Rapids, Mich.
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These may, perhaps, be reckoned mere idlings, but there were occasionally official doings on the Sunday, which might have been national, if Hamburg had been a nation, and which no doubt were eminently popular.
A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie
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While additional shutdowns/idlings will further lower Valero's operating costs, Fitch also anticipates they may result in higher debt/barrel of refining capacity metrics, as we would not anticipate a proportional amount of debt being retired following further plant shutdowns, all else equal.
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While additional shutdowns/idlings will further lower Valero's operating costs, Fitch also anticipates they may result in higher debt/barrel of refining capacity metrics, as we would not anticipate a proportional amount of debt being retired following further plant shutdowns, all else equal.
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* U.S. plant idlings linked to Hitachi parts shortage * Move follows similar step to halt
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While additional shutdowns/idlings will further lower Valero's operating costs, Fitch also anticipates they may result in higher debt/barrel of refining capacity metrics, as we would not anticipate a proportional amount of debt being retired following further plant shutdowns, all else equal.
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Compounding that downturn have been the production cuts and factory idlings across the auto industry.
Newsvine - Get Smarter Here AP Auto Writer Dan Strumpf 2009
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