For 25 years high costs had confined fiber optics to handling long-haul tasks.
Others cited bullying in the form of teachers being given impossibly long lists of tasks to do, or impossibly tight deadlines, denigrated in staff meetings - or simply being ignored.
Padalka and Malenchenko also completed a long list of other tasks outside the station.
The four-engine Yun-20, or Transport-20, is a huge, multi-function airfreighter that can perform various long distance air transport tasks targeting cargo and passengers, the state-run Xinhua News Agency said.
Farmers and ranchers put in long hours to accomplish difficult tasks -- rain or shine.
One major concern is that crowdsourced labor risks creating what Harvard Law School professor Jonathan Zittrain has called "digital sweatshops, " where workers who may be underage work long hours on mind-numbing tasks for very little money -- or, if the work is structured as a game, for no money at all.
Strategic leaders act in ways that manage the tension between success in daily tasks and success in the long term.
The application is one of a number of voice-friendly third-party applications for the iPhone that have helped close the gap between the iPhone and mobile phones that have long given users the ability to perform basic tasks, like dialing phone numbers, with voice commands.
Their Productivity Pyramid built Long-Range Goals, Intermediate Goals, and Daily Tasks on a foundation of Governing Values.
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Choosing tasks that were far away or took a long time to accomplish meant promising myself to be healthy and whole again.
Cluster your outside appointments so that if you are home for the long haul, you have the time to complete your tasks.
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This will push you toward more executive thinking and behavior and put you on a natural path toward performing all the tasks of a CEO, including charting the long-term course for your small business.
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She tossed out one after another because they didn't synch across all her devices, took too long to figure out, made it too hard to enter tasks or were just flat-out ugly.
They have come a long way from the not-too-distant days when one of their biggest tasks was to deliver myriad production data to the Ministry of International Trade and Industry on the last business day of each month.
In a separate development, IBM said it has initiated a long-term multibillion-dollar research effort to create business computers capable of doing simple tasks on their own.
Yet increasingly, relatively humdrum, time-consuming tasks, which would once have been foisted on ambitious but inexperienced young recruits, working long hours to earn their spurs in Wall Street or the City of London, are, thanks to the miracle of fibre-optic cable, foisted on their lower-paid Indian counterparts.
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