Still, there are huge sacrifices - not least in losing touch with what's happening back home.
An automatically generated list called Losing Touch points out long- or short-term relationships that have started to fade.
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" Says he: "We thought, 'Boy, are we losing touch with the community?
Key People get sorted into Losing Touch faster than others and stay in the Losing Touch list for longer.
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One can have a long, happy marriage without losing touch with reality, but it helps to be a bit starry eyed when it comes to you mate.
Before then, driven by the centrally imposed targets that helped reduce volume crimes, police were losing touch with community concerns over lower-level problems such as anti-social behaviour.
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The gunman's former stepmother spoke of a very different Wade Page she once knew before losing touch with him more than a decade ago, when she and Page's father divorced.
Any executive can run the risk of losing close touch with the people he or she manages.
She had overcome extreme shyness and had become very sure of herself without ever losing her human touch.
Amid talk of a bubble in internet stocks Facebook losing its magic touch even before going public, data on internet advertising show the web is booming with cash.
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As a result, ISC was losing out on valuable opportunities to create customer touch points and drive purchasing decisions.
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"People are worried about their incomes falling, prices rising and losing their jobs, yet this out of touch Tory-led government wants to bring back hunting, " she said.
Losing the campy sound effects and adding a rich bossa nova touch, Nouvelle Vague makes "Master and Servant" more deeply sexy than Depeche Mode could have imagined.
Former Lib Dem MP Lembit Opik, who took part in I'm a Celebrity in 2010 after losing his seat, told the BBC the Conservative leadership was "out of touch with the zeitgeist of the nation".
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You really did slip past those kids playing touch football, or that moose, or that dog racing the engine and losing.
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