Word: thanklessness
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...thankless job (with the notable exception of that one beautiful letter), but its saving grace is its creative gratification. Authors know that words have no meaning unless they're arranged properly. Designers know that letters, words, numbers and stories have no meaning unless they're properly presented...
Since serving on a school board is a relatively thankless job, the study found that few community leaders or top business people run for the office. That leaves the field to undistinguished candidates who are willing to put up with the constant harassment of parents, taxpayers and unions. Often the only citizen willing to accept such thankless responsibilities does so because of a personal agenda...
...plays defense for the 1-5 men's lacrosse team--an often thankless job. But Co-Captain Chad Prusmack describes Bentley ("one of the best defensive players in the country," according to Anderson) as an unflappable Joe Gibbs type...
...Angeles, which boasts one of the best public defender programs in the country, salaries start at $42,000 and go as high as $97,000. A staff of 570 lawyers juggles roughly 80,000 cases a year. The work is often thankless, but every so often a case upholds the promise of Gideon. Earlier this month Frank White, 36, a tall, muscular man covered with tattoos, landed in L.A. County court, accused of murdering a tiny Korean woman with his bare fists. White, diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, refused to take his medication and grew angry when the deputies would...
...POST OF U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL MAY WELL BE ONE OF THE world's most thankless jobs. Whoever holds it is somehow expected to do the impossible: calm crises around the world, search for compromise among a welter of contending national agendas, enforce international agreements -- and do it all with seemingly never sufficient resources...