There truly is a history of toil and drama behind every athlete.
In his mind, the low pay and risk of failure at a startup would beat the months of fruitless toil he experienced during a recent internship at France Telecom.
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His employees will toil on a new product, sometimes for years, in total secrecy.
Some 42m poor households toil for a government scheme that guarantees them up to 100 days of work at the minimum wage each year.
Besides the mundane tasks of quelling mass demonstrations and preparing to hold a summit, Malaysia's prime minister has also had to endure the stress and toil of settling into a new job.
Yet while some 2m foreigners toil here, a fifth of the native workforce is jobless.
And unlike pilots at the scene, these remote observers are unaffected by the physical toil of flying a jet or the adrenalin rush of combat.
Suddenly, to a herder or subsistence farmer, this was no longer an animal but a walking fortune, worth more than a dozen years of honest toil.
The House Appropriations Committee June 10 voted to block the contract, because Accenture (nyse: ACN - news - people ) insists it is based in Bermuda, not the United States, where its top executives work and where a plurality of its employees toil.
For two decades, scientists have sought a vaccine that would keep HIV from spreading, or at least from turning into full-blown AIDS. Their slow toil has led to a string of failures.
Button, in eight years of toil, never got into a car capable of winning races.
But Lexus has been spared all the tears, toil and sweat associated with a takeover.
If barrel-aging is now judged too costly and time-consuming, how long can it be before someone engineers a way to do away with the greater toil and expense of grape-growing altogether?
There is also no word on a massive push for local police forces who toil with low wages and antiquated equipment - the so-called quick response team of the Maharashtra police, for example, has not fired a single shot in the past year because of the lack of ammunition.
Enter through a concrete lobby in an anonymous building fronted by corrugated sheeting a few blocks from the Pacific Ocean in West L.A. and suddenly you're in a hangar-esque space where some 200 acolytes toil at desks and tables constructed from the same cheap red plywood used for packing cases.
Thus she could make a task that took minutes appear to consume hours of toil.
And then, unlike small-market managers who can toil in relative obscurity, you meet with a horde of media.
At the 121-acre construction site on Sentosa--the resort island linked to the Singapore mainland by a short causeway--more than 1, 000 workers toil away on around-the-clock shifts.
But the hills used to be sown with maize and the wildflowers are a sign that the workforce has left the fields fallow to toil in more profitable ones in the United States.
Often made in Israel, they are created by scribes who toil, feather quill in hand, for up to a year to produce a single scroll.
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Celtic continued to toil after the interval and were lucky to see Moises flash a free header wide from a free kick.
Most writers toil years on the outskirts of the industry, without ever making a sale.
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