Top seed Federer was taken all the way by Latvian Ernests Gulbis before going through 6-2 4-6 6-4, while Nadal had a simpler task to overcome Belgian Steve Darcis -- who retired while trailing 6-1 2-0.
And Milan counterpart Leonardo admitted his side felt hard done by, leaving them an uphill - though not impossible, he said - task to make it through to the quarter-finals.
Workforce analytics provides accurate, real-time labor data down to the task and sub-task level and allows organizations to reconcile that time to payroll data for 100 percent job costing.
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Companies establish matrix-management systems to deal with globalisation, appoint task-forces to examine new technologies, and add ever longer meetings until employees' brains try to gnaw their way out of their skulls.
Congressional Republicans are taking secretary-designate Alexis Herman to task for campaign-related work she performed for President Bill Clinton while serving as director of the White House public liaison office.
That distrust is also shared by many in Europe and the prime minister faced the daunting - some say impossible - task of trying to bridge the gap between the views of 'old Europe', led by France and Germany, and the unflinching position of the American administration.
Look at how the world has changed, and how kids today are able to multi-task to deal with far more incoming data and sensory input than any generation before.
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Until recently, there was some question whether the enzyme sensor solution would handle the stresses of daily life, so to speak, but these briefs were up to the task -- subjected to a torturous gauntlet of bending and stretching, a treated elastic waistband was still able to adequately measure chemicals as required.
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He knew better than to take a one-size-fits-all approach to his interviewing task.
As well as their solidarity in the courts, at least 35 states have banded together to form a task-force to look into drug-pricing issues.
Web Workers, for instance, is an emerging system for isolating a browser's individual tasks into separate "threads, " making it easier for a browser-based program to perform a computationally intensive task such as photo-editing in a background tab while the user is attending to something else, like e-mail, in the foreground.
He stressed the need to focus on "the main task - to move toward resolving the issues of the Iranian nuclear programme".
And I think it's -- to take a step back here -- not to diminish the task that the committee faces, but while it is challenging because of the politics, at a substantive level, it is not that complicated.
But Shen said the ultimate goal was for Superbot to decide for itself the configuration best-suited to a particular task, describing them as "smart Transformers" after the shape-shifting cartoon toys.
Especially confusing, says Gazzaley, is that key brain functions, like short-term memory, processing speed, and the capacity to multi-task, decline steadily as we age.
John Vouros, a Newtown school-board member and a task-force member, wants to keep teachers involved throughout the entire rebuilding process.
Robots are well-suited to this task, yet none have yet been deployed in care-giving facilities.
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We re-grouped at half-time and stuck to our task but the fourth goal finished us off.
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Leo advocates dropping all the goal-setting, task management, and to-do lists.
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"You have to talk to the elderly in a kindly way, " she tells volunteers as she uses a human-sized model to demonstrate the task of putting a diaper on a grown-up.
Zaarly is using Balanced to provide payments handling for its peer-to-peer task market.
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To bridge the gap, Mr Kim has set up a task-force to prepare for a smooth transition of the presidency.
In April 2002, Mr. Marriott was named by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Japanese government to co-chair a special task force to promote travel between the United States and Japan.
Lastly, the Secretary-General expressed his intent to accept the proposal of the Commission on Climate Change and Development, supported by many leaders today, to appoint a high-level task force following Copenhagen to help us concretely develop a way forward on climate change and development after the framework is established in Copenhagen.
But there are only 46 Americans involved in the UN-mandated police force and, in any case, the task of policing and police-training (its real task) was scheduled to be handed over to the European Union in January.
Finding out just how common exoplanets are particularly the rocky, Earth-like sort will be the task of two space-based telescopes to be launched within the next couple of years.
It's a shame that such an expensive camera with high-def output comes with such a low-def approach to the basic task of composing the image.
The 62-year-old has signed an 18-month contract and his main task will be to try and qualify Togo to the World Cup and Africa Cup of Nations next year.
In one study conducted by organizational psychologists Jennifer Mueller, Jack Goncalo, and Dishan Kamdar, 55 employees rated the responses of nearly 300 of their (unidentified) coworkers to a problem-solving task for both creativity (the extent to which their ideas were novel and useful) and as evidence of leadership potential.
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But when she heard that McKinney -- the highest ranking noncommissioned officer in the Army -- was appointed to a special task force that was supposed to investigate sexual harassment, she wrote him an angry letter.
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