Candidates hate to do them, and hiring managers struggle to find the time to squeeze them in.
Things tend to slow down for people in December so they might actually have the time to squeeze in a quick coffee with you (or, if not, you can at least get on their calendars now for after the New Year).
It takes time to squeeze out the savings in a large acquisition.
If a flight is delayed, for instance, Google now can tell you if you have time to squeeze in a visit to the gym.
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That was until Leighton Baines felled Rudolf Otepka and, instead of crossing, the Czech midfielder rolled his free-kick inside for Sultes to squeeze a first-time shot through numerous bodies and into Howard's bottom right-hand corner.
This means elected officials have to spend much of their time implementing highly unpopular directives to squeeze peasants for more taxes, say, or to prevent them from exceeding birth quotas.
He spent four more years in Los Angeles, and during that time managed to squeeze in a few visits to the Napa Valley.
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His secret dash to Afghanistan and speech from the Bagram airbase (speaking at 4am local time in order to hit prime-time TV back home) suggests that Mr Obama has decided to squeeze every ounce of electoral advantage from it.
By sharing under-the-skin components among many models, Ford plans to squeeze out waste and to speed development time.
If you're determined to squeeze out a second career on company time, McGrath, of HR.com, says it is acceptable to ask permission to perform other work during office hours, provided the time is made up.
They pile the lobbying pressure on with warnings that incentives for investment need to keep coming, and under time pressure, if ageing equipment is to be used to squeeze more out of emptying reservoirs.
Patients are often unaware of these gotchas, and trying to squeeze something out of their coverage can be so time-consuming and frustrating that they simply give up.
In his spare time, Mr. Buffett managed to squeeze in any number of interviews with reporters from all media corners, and was not shy about imparting his standard wit and wisdom.
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Of course, this begs the question: Which is more important -- rising an hour early to squeeze in a morning workout, or savoring that extra time in bed?
MRSA, for instance, is blamed partly on waiting-time targets which put pressure on hospitals to squeeze in as many patients as possible rather than take care to ensure that hospital-acquired infections do not spread.
Nine crucial spending bills will take up a lot of time, but the president also wants to squeeze in a bill to allow warrantless eavesdropping on suspected terrorists, a free-trade deal with Vietnam and a bill allowing nuclear co-operation with India despite India's refusal to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Granted, that was a pretty tough time in the market, and it did manage to squeeze out a 1.9 percent gain in the period it was open, but it's still worth keeping in mind.
It is time to pass this into law so that we can tighten the squeeze on the Iranian regime.
It is that time in a summit where you hang on to ever precious rumour and squeeze it dry for meaning.
The growth of lending to firms other than banks has slowed materially for the first time since the credit squeeze began.
"Around the time of the Olympics", he said, the squeeze would start to ease and "people might start feeling better about things".
Many want time to work on projects they're passionate about but can't squeeze in, like writing a book (Kelly Braddock, a NYC-based realtor), taking a writing class (Lois Kelly, owner of the marketing firm BeeLine in Rhode Island) or learning to cook (Andrea Botwin, a research scientist from Philadelphia), while the majority are hoping for spa certificates or weekend escapes.
At the same time, advances in technology--better filters and digital compression--are allowing carriers to squeeze far more data onto each frequency.
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