What for many people would be regarded as the culmination of a life's work, Mr Simon took almost casually, a diversion.
He relished the chance to pay tribute to those carrying on the unfinished work of his brother's life -- work that for nearly half a century in the U.S. Senate he made his own.
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Besides, she felt she had been a bad daughter, risking her elderly mother's life with her wartime work, a bad wife to both her husbands, and a neglectful mother.
In 1990, when Morris Lapidus was 88 and thinking of retiring, and a bit depressed that his life's work had gone unnoticed, he was suddenly discovered in Europe.
On Monday, the state-run newspaper Granma featured a short item on the car crash that took Paya's life but did not detail who he was or his work as a leading critic of the island's leaders.
And understanding his life's work is a key to understanding the nature of the jihadist forces arrayed against the Western world and Israel.
Indeed, his life's work suggests that a flexible holding company--one encompassing sometimes competing, sometimes cooperating fiefdoms--is the best business model for a fragmented but global market.
"It was a horrible feeling to know that my life's work that I trained 11 years in graduate school for was going up in smoke due to my health, " she says.
At Whole Foods a noodle isn't just wheat and water in a plain package--it is the life's work of an Italian "authentic food artisan" named Gino Girolomoni.
In June this year, the Welsh government, the Arts Council of Wales and Swansea and Carmarthenshire councils said they would run a series of events to recognise Thomas's life, work and legacy.
Forty-eight percent have missed a significant event in their child's life due to work at least once in the last year and nearly one in five (18 percent) have missed four or more.
Elsewhere, in the Cesar Chavez Building, graduate student Francisco Baires sits in a windowless office that could have been a closet in a previous life, immersed in a different kind of work: He is sending a statement condemning Arizona's new anti-illegal immigration law to the media and other opponents of Senate Bill 1070.
If I'm talking about the Middle East, the people I'm interviewing an ambassador, somebody from a think tank that's their life's work.
Now that he has been released, Omar says he is planning a quiet life, going to work on the family's farm.
The critical journey produces a series of sharp and witty observations about Chekhov's life and work.
The Benn family are planning a private funeral and a "memorial meeting" to celebrate Mrs Benn's life and work.
How Hart's private life bears on his work is a fair question.
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Her company, CTC, is advising Dartington as part of the DTI Challenge Fund - a government scheme to improve the work-life balance of Britain's businesses.
Rather than breaking apart after her life's work was destroyed, Tucker has been a central force in rebuilding Netzer Hazani and the 20 other communities of Gush Katif.
They believe the complexity of life shows evidence that it's the intentional work of a creator.
He lived in a house next to the steps and their continued decoration became his life's work.
The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington - a portrait of photographer Hetherington's work in war zones around the world.
Ballymena students providing their own cinematic tribute to Liam's life and work and local produce providing guests with a literal 'taste of the region'.
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Seniority determines many aspects of a flight attendant's life, including what routes they fly and whether they work in economy, business or first class.
And that's actually what I'd like to just spend a few brief moments talking about today, an issue that I've talked a lot about, and that's the issue of work-life balance.
From millennials to Gen Xers to boomers, men to women, returning veterans to disabled employees -- having flextime and telework can make a huge difference in people's lives as they juggle work and life.
Ellen Kirschman, a psychologist, police trainer, and author of "I Love a Cop, " writes about the paradox between an officer's work life and personal life, and how police work changes people.
Relationships with colleagues and giving back to the community are more important to women than salary, according to "The Hidden Brain Drain: Off-Ramps and On-Ramps in Women's Careers, " a study by the Center for Work-Life Policy, which was published in the Harvard Business Review last year.
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