He talked up his record as governor of Massachusetts, when he worked very successfully with a Democratic state legislature.
He worked very hard and accomplished a lot during the day, but he was on the receiving end of some additional scrutiny for not making his career his life.
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He worked very hard with the Speaker of the House to achieve a grand bargain that would have required tough choices from both Democrats and Republicans, but would have achieved a significant goal of long-term debt control.
And he has worked very hard to try to find common ground with members of the other party in Congress.
He said the way pain worked was very similar in mice and people, so he hoped to develop painkillers that could be used in the clinic.
His fitness is much better now so he's cut the injuries down and he's also worked very hard on his batting too and that's a strong area for him now.
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But when I reached Schneier for comment, he told me a very different story: Schneier says he worked with Michael Jones on a technology related to secure payment systems in the 1990s.
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"We have come just for this occasion to say goodbye to this pope, because he worked a lot and was very patient, " said Carmen Marsal Moyano, 54, who had traveled to Rome from Madrid with her husband.
According to its website, the Mr was appointed a vice president of the financial services company, Mellon Financial Corp by the age of 25, where he worked around some of the very best traders in the world.
"His evaluation reports said that he had some difficulties in his residency, fitting into his residency, and we worked very hard to integrate him into our practice and into our organization, and he adapted very well, was doing a really good job for us, " she said.
He thought - he had studied through the years, very bright people - how very bright people worked, how you manage very bright people - and then managed to ignore everything he learned.
"He seemed to be able to perform very satisfactorily in the real world where he worked with young people and disassociated that from what he was doing, " he said.
Mr Pooley said he had worked alongside the Broads Authority in 2008 and was "very surprised" when he was told he would be served an enforcement notice and possibly face prosecution for not gaining planning permission.
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He was very subtle in how he worked, but he put in a lot of time and a lot of passion into it.
And I want to tell you that four years ago, when he ran, both Hillary and I worked very hard -- we did, together, over a hundred appearances.
Some who have worked with Pope Francis said he is still very energetic.
For some reason, people have been talking about Matt Prior's position in the team, but he's a very fine cricketer who has worked very hard at his game.
In his house at the edge of Dechmont Woods near Livingston in West Lothian, where he had worked all his life as a forester, there were very few books.
Anthony Reynolds, director of Wheathill Farms, of Thurlby, near Bourne, admitted failing to maintain the tractor and his solicitor said he was "very saddened that Mr Mould, who had worked on the farm for 26 years, had been injured".
"All I know is that I worked very hard in the last two years, " he said.
He worked directly for Sylvan Coleman, chairman of the board and a very tough and demanding cookie.
"Initially I was rather apprehensive because he was a big chap and very famous, but it was a relationship that worked, " said Blake.
Finally, I noted in the article that I once worked for Ron Perelman and I hold him in high regard as he treated me very well.
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Philip Stone, whose family has worked collectively for Axminster Carpets for more than 100 years, said he was "very disheartened" at the announcement and the potential prospect of losing his job.
Tony worked for nothing, or for very little, groaning in wordless irritation as he toiled.
European leaders need to face the fact that "an industrial model that has worked very well to create wealth and growth has come to an end, " he said.
"We worked very hard to integrate him into our practice and into our organization, and he adapted very well, was doing a really good job for us, " she said.
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