Word: shifting
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...remains unknown, but his fate and that of 22 of his countrymen who died on that Feb. 5 night in 2004 was a reminder of the dangers facing illegal immigrants in Britain. Like many other Chinese migrants who find their way to northern England, those who died had found shift work as cockle pickers on the mudflats of Morecambe Bay. It was a cruel existence of grueling hours, perilous tides and pathetic pay, but one that largely escaped the notice of authorities and citizens...
...that changed with the night's events. It was already late by the time the 35 illegal workers trudged out onto the mudflats for their shift, armed with fishing permits gained with false documentation. They could not read the signs warning them of the tides, and neither they nor their gang boss heeded locals' advice not to venture too far. Eventually 11 workers headed back to escape the icy wind and rain. By 10 p.m., 21 had drowned and two were missing, never to be found. Only one man, Li Hua, was rescued from the inky water that night, plucked...
...only the Crimson that was able to take advantage of the home waters. “I think it definitely helped,” sophomore crew Lauren Brants said of sailing on the Charles. “We’re used to a lot of the shifts, and we always have our eyes open for that. We haven’t had a lot of breeze on the river as much recently, so that was a change, but we always have different shifts in our mindset, and we capitalized on that.” The co-ed team didn?...
...Professor of Health Policy and a co-author of the study. Miller said that he hoped that the study would resonate outside of the medical community, too. “The goal here is to create an understanding of the risks that are involved in gun ownership and possibly shift social norms about meaning of gun ownership and the actuality that having a gun actually imperils rather than protects,” he said...
...third set I tried to get pumped up, put a little more pressure on him,” Kumar said. “I knew it would be a momentum shift...