Word: gruntwork
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...dehydration, if it was heat exhaustion, if it was lack of calories," says Ventura. "The combination of all these things just zapped him completely." Landis' Phonak teammates, or domestiques, deserve part of the blame. They couldn't keep pace to hand him food and water - essential domestique gruntwork. On the steep climbs, you don't want to wait for the team car for food and drink, because you'll have to use even more energy to retreat and return to the front of the peleton. Plus, it's hard to grab replenishment from the car while descending a mountain...
...practice in model-making, Woo immediately puts i-banking in a nutshell: “Essentially, my boss schmoozes with CEOs on the golfcourse to convince them to do something to make money in the big picture. I’m in the small picture. I do all the gruntwork, crunching numbers and creating presentations...
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