Lord Layard's analysis suggests an alternative view: it is not that Europeans are working too little, but that Americans work too long, driven to choose more income instead of leisure by an urge to keep up with the Joneses.
What could have been two or three weeks' work lasted far too long.
It's that we are putting Americans to work doing the work that America needs done in critical areas that have been neglected for too long, work that will bring real and lasting change for generations to come.
Since interest-rate reductions are usually reckoned to start having an effect after about six to nine months, the Fed's cuts earlier this year should start to work their way through before too long.
Struggling to make their tyres work in the cool temperatures, Brawn chose a three-stop strategy, but they spent too long behind slower cars to make it work.
"Let me assure you that the government is going to work for a long time and successfully too, regardless of these storms, " she said.
The World Bank, too, whose work in developing countries long emphasized grand infrastructure projects like dams and bridges, is now financing modest but significant improvements in the world's informal settlements.
Workfare was ruled out, however, on the grounds that it would cost far too much to offer work to all the long-term jobless.
Handelsbanken eschews bonuses too, on the grounds that they work against long-term relationships with customers and employees.
One drawback: The new drug doesn't work well in the heart, which pumps too rapidly for long-exposure pictures.
These leads will have to be sufficiently short to transmit very high frequency signals, which tend to radiate away as microwaves if the lead is too long (by 2015, chips will work high in the gigahertz band).
East Belfast MP Naomi Long has said the work of the Unionist Forum is too little, too late.
As I look back on my own experiences, there were nights when I came home from work long after the children were in bed and I was too tired for even a bowl of soup.
For too long their entire business model has relied on copying the work of others.
He said people have been "parked" for too long on benefits when they actually want the chance to work and contribute to society.
Long before the recession hit, hard work stopped paying off for too many people.
The other side says that approach takes too long and leaves the great majority waiting until the supposed benefits work their way through the economy to them.
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And I think that reflects a larger problem, that for too long we as a society have viewed policies that help people balance work and family as somehow a special benefit maybe to women who shoulder that, rather than an essential part of a workplace that can benefit everyone in the workplace.
Perhaps South Korean firms waited too long to abandon this model, Mr Bae allows, but it did work a treat for decades.
There are things we should do right now to put more people back to work and to restore a sense of security and fairness that's been missing for too long.
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Their attitude was summed up when more good work from Sestak gave Vittek a chance to wrap it up, but the striker appeared to delay too long, allowing Reid to slide in with an excellent tackle.
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