They proved to be industrious providers and pleasant companions.

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Managers rated those at the office to be more dependable and industrious, regardless of the quality of their work.

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The Irish appeared to be firmly back in business 11 minutes later when the wonderfully industrious Doyle lashed in a glorious goal with his left foot from the right angle of the penalty area.

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Such inflation amounted to sophisticated stealing, of course, as the value of savings by the industrious would be devalued in the process as well.

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Some of these customers are to be found just up the road, part of the dense engineering conglomeration of this most industrious of towns, but others, such as Boeing Aerospace, for which Pietro Carnaghi has built a machine to shape the top of Delta-4 rockets, are in America.

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