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  • Sweta Mangal, the chief executive of a Mumbai ambulance service company called Dial 1298 for Ambulance, says its vehicles arrived at some of the attack sites before the police did.

    A Traumatized Mumbai Seeks to Protect Itself 2008

  • With them went two sections of the 2nd Canadian Field Ambulance from the M.D.S. at the north-eastern edge of Ypres, to the billets previously occupied by the 3rd Field Ambulance at Oosthoek some ten miles away, one section being left to carry on an Advanced Dressing Station under Major Hardy.

    War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps John George 1918

  • From the R.A.P. those of the wounded who can walk make their way on foot to the Advanced Dressing Station (A.D.S.) of a Field Ambulance, which is situated within the fire zone at some roadside point up to which, if not always during the day-time, certainly at night the ambulances (usually horse ambulances) can be brought.

    War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps John George 1918

  • They may have left behind the slave hymn-influenced tracks like "Ambulance" or their cover of The Pixies '"Mr. Grieves," but TV on the Radio lost none of the soul.

    Brandon Perkins: Best of '08, Part 2 2009

  • "Ambulance" was one of those words, rather numerous, which Ethiopian lips were not framed by Nature to articulate.

    Army Life in a Black Regiment Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867

  • The Alien Factor gives these comedians plenty to work with, from softballs like the director's decision to shoot so much of the movie in the dark ( "Why did they even bother taking off the lens cap?") and the overbearing synthesizer soundtrack ( "You have just entered Minimoog National Forest"), to more general observations about the obviously low budget ( "I'm surprised they didn't write 'Ambulance' on the side in a Sharpie").

    DVD Verdict 2010

  • In a strange set of circumstances, the name "Ambulance" belonged to an existing group that Congleton and Dublin joined; once the original members left, Beckett and Lysaght came on board-and the name lived on.

    Playback:stl Syndication 2009

  • "We had demo tapes with the name 'Ambulance' on them when record labels first got interested in us," explains Congleton.

    Playback:stl Syndication 2009

  • Russian World Studios produces "Ambulance," a popular soap opera about ambulance employees, and worked on Woody Allen's "Matchpoint."

    The St. Petersburg Times 2009

  • Ambulance worker: Who are the parents of Lennie Newton?

    Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Tom’s Review Forum 2009

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