When we were at work, we were worrying about what was happening at home.
The situation changed little in the following decade, but other forces were at work.
We passed a warehouse-like building under construction where several men in hard hats were at work.
They were at work, or at a birthday party, or playing softball, or at their wedding, or with their dog.
In the squabbling and manoeuvring that went on in the corridors before the vote, all Europe's crude tribal loyalties were at work.
In the back of the dining room where, over lunch, Don was delivering his well-reasoned predictions, some more subversive minds were at work.
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As doctors were at work saving those who could be saved, a group of mothers was calling around to check on one another.
During yesterday's rush hour in Minneapolis, highway crews were at work.
Government types now acknowledge that other factors were at work, too.
Diesel-powered pump trains were at work in tubes carrying the 2, 3, 7 and F lines under the East River, an MTA spokesman said Tuesday evening.
But as Erik Sirri, a senior official at the Securities and Exchange Commission pointed out in a speech on November 28th, other forces were at work too.
China turned into a significant exporter to the US. Normally, if free-market economic forces were at work, the renminbi would have appreciated and the US dollar would have declined.
Missy and her husband had a suspicious and mistrusting relationship with Flossie, but in a way she was actually helping them by keeping Howard company while they were at work.
Crews were at work protecting adjacent piggeries and property.
As the world financial system careened toward debacle and then new scrutiny in recent years, unregulated oil and metals traders were at work in relative obscurity in Switzerland building massive businesses, capitalizing on the rise of commodities prices and China.
Mr Rumsfeld insisted that Mr Garner and his team were already at work, and that water and electricity services were being restored in southern Iraqi towns.
He notes that 90% of the 10, 000 people employed at the outsourcing firm Intelenet, a Blackstone investment, were back at work the morning after the attacks began.
By the time I got down there, the intern and nurses were already at work on them.
Within three months, 94 percent of Starbucks employees with back-pain complaints were back at work within a day.
Speculators were indeed at work but there is no evidence of hoarding.
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But when they were not onstage and rocking out with their fans, they were hard at work remixing tracks at the Sunset Sound studio in Hollywood.
Back in October, we heard that Sean Anders and John Morris -- the comedy screenwriting duo behind "Hot Tub Time Machine" and "Mr. Popper's Penguins" -- were hard at work on a script.
After a point I commented to the person on the phone that I wished they were as good at getting someone to make my service work as they were at apologizing for the incompetence of their staff.
The next day we were all back at work at our respective companies.
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At-home workers had a substantially higher job satisfaction compared to those who were not able to work at home and their job attrition rates dropped a whopping 50 percent.
If staying on at work were up to older employees alone, many would jump at the chance.
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