Word: thanklessly
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...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...
Verba jokingly relates the library directorship offer to a New Yorker cartoon—which he sent Bok at the time—that pictures a CEO with his arm around a middle-manager. The CEO says, “Boswick, you did so well on that last miserable, thankless job we gave you that we have an even more miserable and thankless...
...post-Saddam Iraq. There is some debate about who will manage the oil supply and supervise the reconstruction of Iraq's government--the U.S. seems to want to run things--but don't be surprised if the U.N. is eventually asked to step in. These will be thankless tasks, not likely to be noticed by the American public. And this is not a very romantic argument for a flawed institution--it is merely an argument for stability, prudence and practicality, values that conservatives used to celebrate...
...post-Saddam Iraq. There is some debate about who will manage the oil supply and supervise the reconstruction of Iraq's government - the U.S. seems to want to run things - but don't be surprised if the U.N. is eventually asked to step in. These will be thankless tasks, not likely to be noticed by the American public. And this is not a very romantic argument for a flawed institution - it is merely an argument for stability, prudence and practicality, values that conservatives used to celebrate...