The capper: At my going-away party, one tool-room engineer--a guy who had hazed me hard in the beginning--asked if I wouldn't mind talking to his son about going to college.
So the hard work is only beginning.
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Enforced restrictions on movement in the countryside are already beginning to hit hard in Wales as visitors stay away.
If we retell the story from the beginning, how hard is it to spot the suspect, the victim and even the likely murder weapon.
"We gave it everything at the end but we just didn't have the pace, especially in the beginning with the hard tire, " the Australian said.
"Today's meeting with the Presidential Task Force on Autos was just the beginning of the hard work ahead for GM and the president's team, " GM said in a statement.
Today, virtue has a street value that even the most hard-nosed of Manhattan are beginning to acknowledge.
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And this President has been leading on that issue from the beginning in pushing very hard for the kind of bipartisan compromise that demonstrably the American people demand, that Democrats, independents and Republicans really want.
It hasn't always been easy but I've worked hard all my career and it's finally beginning to pay off for me with Scotland.
Already major payments providers like Visa are pushing Near Field Communications (NFC) payment solutions hard - a raft of contactless payment systems is beginning to hit the market.
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"In the beginning I was trying to shoot as hard as I could, and I was making a lot of mistakes -- so I knew I had to start putting the ball back in the court more, " Li told the WTA Tour's official website.
Mr. Christie is known for laying out an agenda at the beginning of each year, and then entering hard negotiations with the Democrat-controlled Legislature.
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And we have from the beginning, as you know, worked very hard on the great power relationships because the platform of a productive, constructive set of great power relationships provide the opportunity for the United States to pursue its interests in the most effective way.
His reputation for arrogance in these and later jobs made it hard for him to find work in the government at the beginning of the second world war, when he was already in his 60s.
That means he should have started by having the operation, getting through rehab and starting to train hard - that way he would be on fire at the beginning of the season when everyone else is tired from touring.
It may be too early to write an obituary for Hitachi GST but it seems likely that calendar Q1 2012 may be the last quarter for a company that has roots stretching back to the beginning of the digital storage industry and the first hard disk drives.
Murray worked hard in the off-season on his delivery and he was beginning to reap the rewards, keeping his first serve percentage above 60% throughout and denying Garcia-Lopez a look-in.
As their attentions turns to out-of-touch governments and a moneyed elite that they find hard to understand, Americans and Britons and millions of others are beginning to ask questions begin to be asked about a new generation of independent money managers who have established themselves as key players in the financial markets over the past four decades.
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Beginning with Drumcree, there are bound to be plenty of hard bumps along the way.
We are trying hard to tell the Africare story better and widely, and we are beginning to have some real success doing that in video, print, television, radio and social media.
As more and more music moves to iPods, hard drives and the much-ballyhooed cloud, a counterintuitive question is beginning to emerge: Could vinyl outlast the compact disc in the long run?
And just as Wink is beginning to hit its stride, those same companies Wilderotter worked so hard to sell on interactive TV are quietly scheming against her.
Beginning his business in 2004 with one used 1989 motorcoach, through hard work and exceptional customer service, Land has built the business today to include a wide selection of over 65 fine vehicles available for charter as well as expansive offerings in tour, fleet services, and mass transportation management.
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The ELA, well that was entertained in the beginning but there is no commitment by the ECB to do such a thing, hence the really hard time passing the bill through the Cypriot parliament.
Mundell, it appears, has in mind an elaborate and carefully orchestrated evolutionary process, beginning with his signature Optimal Currency Areas (OCA) that he believes will lead the world back to hard money or its near equivalent through an evolutionary political process.
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