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...work runs around the clock in three shifts: one from 1 a.m. to 3 p.m., one from 3 p.m. to midnight and another red-eye from midnight to 7 a.m. "It's doesn't matter if it's dark outside," Curly points out, "it's dark down there anyway". Compensation is just for this sunless travail. According to some workers at the South Station tunnel site, "We get paid $90,000 a year and that's probably a hell of a lot more than you'll get paid out of Harvard." The engineer working at the hole next door...
...special because they are urgent. They confound the order of life by acting like petulant children. They demand to be entertained right at this moment and I indulge them because I know that if I don't, I will not deserve the wish I make when I catch the clock turning...
...thought we really dictated play for the last20 minutes [of the first half]" Locker said. "Theylike to play a direct style, but we've done a goodjob keeping the ball on the floor and eating upthe clock...
...prepare your report. I would also like to make clear that the hospital group that is truly on the front line is the staff, particularly the nurses. As a nurse and administrator, I am acutely aware that hospitals exist because people are in need of the round-the-clock care that nurses provide. BRENDA NEVIDJON, R.N., M.S.N. Duke University Hospital Durham...
...Hamilton is night manager at the Eagle, a seedy Liverpool hotel whose habitues "wander in from twelve o'clock onwards...clutching at their down-below parts, ready for their lonely bit of action." The narrator of this slangy, tangy first novel from Britain has seen it all. Or so he thinks, until the Eagle falls into the hands of managers from the head office, who express concern for their "customer-stroke-guests" while remaining oblivious to the shenanigans under their noses. Throw in a racist thug, some lovable Cockneys and Rastafarians, and a whiff of violence...