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  • "The system cuts down on dirt and debris from the 'workface' -- a term we use to describe where trucks dump their waste in the landfill," noted Thelma Davis, administrator for the complex.

    CourierPostOnline.com - News 2009

  • If the old CEGB ethos of cautious, somewhat dour and pessimistic, regard to the possibility of human over-optimism at the workface, and steps to train it out of crucial workers, had come to the oil industry the price of producing oil would be a little higher than it is-----but BPs individual 'bottom line' for 2010/2011 would look healthier.

    BP oil spill: Deepwater, deep trouble | Editorial 2011

  • Thus far there is no evidence that Mr. Simpson has actually squirreled away money intended for his London house to be utilised on his Tuscan hideaway, of which one imagines his Nottingham South electorate were suitably ignorant: it would not do to let them think he was anything other than a horny-handed son of toil at the Labour workface would it?

    Archive 2008-03-02 2008

  • Thus far there is no evidence that Mr. Simpson has actually squirreled away money intended for his London house to be utilised on his Tuscan hideaway, of which one imagines his Nottingham South electorate were suitably ignorant: it would not do to let them think he was anything other than a horny-handed son of toil at the Labour workface would it?

    'Shred & Bury': The New Westminster Watchword 2008

  • The D.C. area has generally fared better than other regions due to a stable federal workface.

    Lori's A.M. Buzz: A weather rerun 2010

  • Here we go, my new promotion idea based on workface based counselling has just popped into my head, be right back, just off to the patents office … ..

    You Ain’t No Picasso « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007

  • So, having spent a day at the workface trying to figure out the kinds of algorithms an intelligent person might be using to solve a cognitive task I have set them and trying to get measures of the patterns of neural firing that might shed light on this problem , it feels odd to be confronted by an argument about whether or not a design could be the product of “natural” or “intelligent” processes.

    The Sad state of Intelligent Design: Or why it shuns 'peer review' - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • That means you can hire people because you know you can reduce your workface if you need to.

    Archive 2007-11-01 2007

  • And what will you be up to while I'm toiling at the workface?

    Resurrection Men Rankin, Ian, 1960- 2002

  • If the area is flat, soil will have to be cleared to create a workface

    1. The quarry 1992

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