" Only to be told, "I'm sorry Mr Thompson but the man who traces the calls went off-shift at midnight.
The line was long with residents in scrubs coming off the night shift, looking as bleary as I did.
"We need a dramatic shift off carbon-based fuel: coal, oil and also gas, " Bill McKibbern, the founder of 350.org, wrote in an email to The Associated Press.
As a young child, I loved going to late drive-in movies with my father as we waited for my mother to get off her third shift job.
And whether or not it sets off a climate shift of Pleistocenic proportions, acidification could kill the researchers' newly-discovered, awe-inspiring reef, along with others we haven't even found yet.
By judiciously using reinsurance to shift risks off their balance sheets, they can stabilize profits and relieve pressure on capital.
Already we are seeing quite a few companies who started off as box manufactures shift their business model to one where they license their platform.
Republicans Bobby Jindal of Louisiana is trying to ditch his state's income tax while Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is working to shift people off his state's Medicaid rolls and onto private insurance.
Kaiser has been asking the state to shift the responsibility off of buyers and onto manufacturers.
So fresh off an all-day shift, he barreled down the highway and battled the blaze all night with thousands of others.
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This would be a mistake, for unless consumers see fluctuations in prices (especially at peak times), they have no incentive to conserve power or shift their use off-peak.
And then the big multinational began to shift its manufacturing facilities off-shore, the first big wave of deindustrialization in the second half of the 1980s.
Hats should be off to Mayor Bloomberg for trying to shift the dialog in cities.
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Belfast came out of the traps fast with an excellent opening shift and Awada rounded it off with the opening goal.
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Chicago firemen currently work a 24-hour shift followed by two days off.
These forums should not be casually overlooked and blown off, because they represent a significant shift in attitude from previous Democratic presidential campaigns.
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While the fall in interest rates in 2009 helped people shift their spending into paying off debt and saving more, that process has fallen back.
Freightliner Trucks, a division of Daimler AG (ETR: DAI), said it would hire back some of the workers it laid off in 2009 as it adds another shift at its Cleveland, N.
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So tonight, I propose we use some of our oil and gas revenues to fund an Energy Security Trust that will drive new research and technology to shift our cars and trucks off oil for good.
The backlog prompted the closure of the M20 between the Maidstone and Ashford turn-offs to allow for the complex operation to shift non-freight traffic off the motorway and onto the A20 to make room for the hundreds of lorries waiting to board ferries and trains for France.
Like the talent on and off camera, viewers too have embraced the shift from big screen to small.
As firms' managers shift the emphasis from output to profitability, they have reduced investment, cut prices to shift unsold inventories, and laid off workers.
If he managed to get into the general run-off, we could see a really fascinating shift in our national debate, and hopefully a hugely positive one.
When he comes off you know he's put his shift in and you also know that the next morning he'll be up again and ready for the next challenge.
Washington (CNN) -- Caught off guard by the Obama administration's shift in immigration policy last week, Republicans on Tuesday refined their response in an effort to lessen any political bounce for the president at what had been a tough time in his campaign.
But something seems to have worried them, and they will now be reading the runes of a summit that ended with an unprecedented decision to cut EU spending, trying to evaluate whether this is a one-off or a symptom of a more troubling shift in Europe's centre of gravity - a move in a more sceptic direction.
So it is debatable whether banks shift much, if any, risk off their balance sheets.
Governments are trying, slowly, to shift the burden of paying for pensions off the state and on to individuals.
Last week, the group announced a month-long sale with 25% off prices, sparking worries that it needed to shift stock after poor Christmas trading.
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