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...occupation authority, while demoralizing Baathist resistance fighters by eliminating two of their key political leaders and warning them that the capability of U.S. intelligence to detect Baathist leaders is growing. Equally important, it will provide an important morale-booster to U.S. troops straining under the weight of an often thankless mission...
...plenty of time to dilate upon them. In an uncharacteristically self-indulgent mood, he grumbled that Congress had shown little appreciation for his services: "But I suppose the present members hardly know me or that I have performed any." His greatest task for his country was a thankless one, though he had been instrumental in negotiating treaties of commerce and alliance with France, had adroitly bled the French treasury dry and had represented his country at the negotiating table when the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783, concluding the Revolution and ushering the U.S. into its existence...
...There’s no magic bullet,” McCready said. “Sometimes it can be a thankless job, but the things that will serve him well are the things that he’s practiced professionally and personally throughout his entire career. Integrity, trust, honesty, those will rule...
...posts in the federal government are as thankless as the job of running the Environmental Protection Agency. Green groups fly into a rage when they perceive the EPA lowering its protective vigilance;?industries find every regulation?a threat to their bottom lines. Who wouldn't grow weary of these warring factions? Christine Todd Whitman did, and announced last month that she will leave her post as EPA administrator on June 27. The short list of prospective replacements, confirmed by a White House official speaking on condition of anonymity, consists of Tom Skinner, the head of an EPA regional office; Idaho...
...answer went further than we could have imagined. He began to speak of life through baseball, about how much he appreciated his players’ toiling in anonymity, and it was moving. And then he said that we would understand—that we knew all about doing thankless tasks for the love of it, all while trying to keep our grades above the freezing mark and enjoying whatever else life had to offer...