"We are just going to work harder and more efficiently, " the host said in an email.

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Or maybe we just like to work harder, to try to have more to celebrate when the holidays finally do arrive.

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When women make less than men for the same work, it hurts families who find themselves with less income, and have to work harder just to get by.

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And it just makes you want to work harder.

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Learning machines are people who work smarter, not just harder.

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Over the years I learned that getting knocked down was just part of the process to work even harder and to improve.

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Things like missing bookmarks or saved passwords (try logging into your bank account without them) forced me to work harder at things that were usually just a button press away.

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Prisoners will also work harder to ensure that they earn money for victims and not just for themselves, the justice secretary added.

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Union bosses assume that efficiency is just a fancy way of saying that some workers will be canned and the rest made to work harder.

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On other days that involve just a 15-minute walk to work, then sitting in front of a computer, it's much harder to meet my meager goal of two hours of activity.

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