If Team GB falls short of expectations, what happens to the happiness factor then?

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When these core issues are solved and when all Liberians are reconciled, integrated and given equal opportunity in all areas of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness then Liberia will be positioned to blossom and grow into a nation that is truly beautiful and prosperous.

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The numbers were combined to find an overall rating of employee happiness for each respondent, and then they were sorted by field to find the six happiest and six unhappiest industries (as defined by the North American Industry Classification System ( NAICS)).

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The numbers were combined to find an overall rating of employee happiness for each respondent, and then they were sorted by company to find who the happiest airline employees were.

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The numbers were combined to find an overall rating of employee happiness for each respondent, and then they were sorted by salary bracket to find who the happiest workers were.

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The numbers were combined to find an average rating of overall employee happiness for each respondent, and then sorted by job title to find which occupations had the unhappiest workers.

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The numbers were combined to find an average rating of overall employee happiness for each respondent, and then sorted by job title to find which occupations had the happiest workers.

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But if raising the level of happiness is to be the chief aim of government policy, as he argues it should, where then is the call to make divorce harder, given the pain that he says broken homes inflict on children?

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In the happiness paradox, our not having something leads us to desire it and our having it then destroys that desire.

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But then along come the holidays, imposing upon us once again a template for what happiness and interpersonal success is expected to look like.

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If anything the U.S. Task Force has done has given this child one year of peace and happiness, then my stay here has been worth it and I can count my blessings this Thanksgiving Day.

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Then the special joy wears off and they are back where they started, at least in terms of happiness.

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