"That's the wonderful thing about Earth Day is that it really provides a platform, an opportunity for grassroots organizations and community organizations to really focus on what's happening in their neighborhoods and their homes in their communities, in their businesses and to focus on the priority problems and to engage people maybe for the first time in taking environmental action."

VOA: special.2010.04.21

But some employers frown on workers taking time away from their jobs to follow the games and keep track of their brackets.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

They sure are taking their time reducing prices, however, now that commodity prices are down dramatically.

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"The players themselves are also taking their time to look around, " he told BBC Radio Cumbria's Matchnight programme.

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It's only right that prospective students are taking their time deciding which universities to apply to and making use of all the information available to them.

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