But for most others, the slog up the ladder follows a routine path.
But the slog of delays goes back further than that.
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Top it off with a soft-boiled egg and a few cilantro sprigs, and you've got a meal that takes a mere 25 minutes and makes the slog of winter fade into distant memory.
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It's a milestone worth noting in the hard slog that is - we all hope, as shareholders - the recovery of Royal Bank of Scotland.
It's time to reclaim my trusted pedal bike and face the long slog into work.
"Milestone" makes me think not of the end of a journey, but of the long slog still ahead.
Despite the SXSW slog, it is considered bad form to grouse about it.
Usually this stretch is the last maddening insult on the long slog.
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While the rival commissions slog it out over the coming months, power in Los Angeles will remain as shadowy and unaccountable as ever.
But research is still hard in India: academics are reluctant to collaborate with filthy capitalists, and local investors are wary of the slow slog of drug discovery.
Although New Orleans is still a laid-back place that likes a good time, the trauma of the storm and the long slog back to normality seem to have energised it.
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In its conviction that "change" isn't effected through rhetoric alone, but through the hard slog of campaign work, persuasion, inspiration, inclusion and good old, bad old politicking, "Milk" says something about how progress is achieved in America.
Each of these companies has a created an operating system that people invest their time and money in, systems that value the sunk cost in both time and money and penalize the long slog of moving to another digital planet.
And the proceedings will necessarily slog through all the gory details of the biggest oil spill in U.S. history, forcing those of us who follow the oil industry to suffer flashbacks of the horrific explosion, oil-soaked beaches and those endless hours keeping half an eye on the submarine video feed of oil gushing from the Macondo well.
Everyone gets excited at the beginning and the end, but man, that slog in the middle is a chore.
Boundaries became scarce and, shortly after Shakib top-edged Ojha's first ball into the gloves of Dhoni, Siddique slog-swept the spinner to Harbhajan Singh at deep mid-wicket.
Now, with a general election possibly only a year away, the real hard slog starts for Mr Howard.
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David Kurtz, at Talking Points Memo, thinks that the decision means there is a "long slog ahead" for the US in Afghanistan.
If India calls but the flight is too much of a slog, head to Lucknam Park in the southern English county of Wiltshire for an Indian cookery course, plus roaring fires, scenic walks and horse riding.
That meant more time away from their families, and, besides, getting around the country was a slog.
Dotcoms may no longer be the seductive alternative to the decade-long slog to partnership that they were a year ago.
But an intense slog around the state will eat into his funds, leaving him at risk of running short later in the campaign.
From a man who can slog with the best of them, his knock betrayed the mind of a tactician who knows how to get the job done.
From 2002 the company began the laborious task of trying to cut capacity rather than continue to slog it out on the dealer forecourts with ever bigger discounts to lure buyers.
For most others, the decade since the bubble has been a slog against competitors and reinvigorated regulators.
While other cities slog along, the Sooner capital has been an economic powerhouse.
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William Wyler's remake is just a pious slog up to the admittedly exciting chariot race (which Wyler did not shoot anyway).
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