They proved to be industrious providers and pleasant companions.

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De la Renta and his team may be the most industrious of the large fashion houses based here.

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Managers rated those at the office to be more dependable and industrious, regardless of the quality of their work.

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Such inflation amounted to sophisticated stealing, of course, as the value of savings by the industrious would be devalued in the process as well.

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The Irish appeared to be firmly back in business 11 minutes later when the wonderfully industrious Doyle lashed in a glorious goal with his left foot from the right angle of the penalty area.

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Some of these customers are to be found just up the road, part of the dense engineering conglomeration of this most industrious of towns, but others, such as Boeing Aerospace, for which Pietro Carnaghi has built a machine to shape the top of Delta-4 rockets, are in America.

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