She is not asking for more time off (she works twelve hours a day and rarely takes a vacation).

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The three parties in the government are asking for more time to make the cuts, but its international creditors have lost patience.

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That skepticism is even deeper for Belgium, which is asking for more time after cutting its structural deficit by just 0.4 percentage point of GDP over three years.

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For that, Johnson is asking for more time.

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With productivity at historically high levels and employers asking for ever more time worked and bringing on temporary workers, this suggests that current employees are being squeezed for all they can effectively produce.

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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says the commanders talk to him all the time, and he reports they haven't been asking for any more troops.

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What's really extraordinary about FoG is that it's the first time that more than 200 film industryites have joined forces in asking for drastic and immediate change of the filmmaking environment in Greece.

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What might be less obvious is that it has been asking for permission to do that since 2009, during which time total mail volume has fallen more than 5% and First-Class volume has drop by more than 12%.

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