On election night, Mr Binet watches as the Hollande team, huddled in his provincial office in Tulle, fails to get the television to work minutes before the results are announced.

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Cyril invited me to work in his office when he was Chief Whip.

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Wayne Lukas has earned the right to sit in an office and let his assistants do the grunt work in the stables.

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It's why he has, since he took office, instructed his administration to work with local communities in combating violence from a variety of different approaches.

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"Truly, I have really serious work to do in Butler County, " he said from his office in Hamilton, some 25 miles north of Cincinnati, even as snowflakes dropped from the skies.

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Pope Benedict's last words on his final day in office - as he greeted one-by-one the cardinals - were a plea to work together in harmony.

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Steven joined Microsoft in 1989 as a software development engineer and has contributed to the company in many ways from his work as a technical advisor to Bill Gates, to leading the evolution of theMicrosoft Office business, to his direction and successful leadership of Windows and Windows Live as well as Surface.

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"He's been an excellent president for our organization and we feel like he should stay in office and continue to do the good work he's been doing, " Kinard said from his home in Mansfield, Texas.

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Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio had a reputation as a humble pastor who even in high office commuted to work by bus, lived in an apartment rather than an apostolic palace and cooked his own meals.

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