Growing up on his family's tenant farm in Clyde, Texas, Mr. Estes was so industrious that by the time he was 10 he was paying his brothers and sisters to do his chores.

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Books will be published and doctorates awarded on research into how a country that managed to become a member of the euro zone, that staged a very successful Olympic Games in 2004, which has a talented, well-educated and industrious population, should fall so low, so fast.

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It's an industrious sight, but even more so when you consider that Goklaney, 58, is the company's managing director.

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We competed so keenly that when the school stopped ranking us some industrious students set up a table in the cafeteria where classmates could report their grades.

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Of course, by 1940, commercial air service had been hauling transcontinental freight, passengers, and mail for more than a decade, and doing so largely as a result of the incentive of Lindbergh's solo feat and his industrious efforts as a million-dollar-a-year consultant to the newly organized airlines.

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