Word: toils
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Then there is the important distinction between the professional and college ranks in football. In college, even as the athletes toil to line the NCAA coffers and pad the bank accounts of the universities they attend, they are held to stricter standards of conduct than their professional counterparts, all in the name of the amateur spirit...
...initial yearly package costing around $200,000. That's not cheap, but Williams calls it good value considering it helps clients place strategic bets worth millions. Sectors constantly affected by uncertainty and flux may find it most useful: think telecoms, oil companies, traders, insurers and betting companies. Firms that toil in steady environments may be less interested but, as Williams points out: "There seem to be fewer and fewer of those around...
...layers of difficulty for a team that was already breaking in five new coaches. How the squad responds to the suspensions, and how untested replacements perform, will determine how successful the Crimson is in the early part of the season. ***Athletes in sport, no matter the playing field, constantly toil under the microscope. Perhaps this was never more the case than in the run-up to Harvard’s spring practices. On March 13, a mother of two and student at North Carolina Central reported to police that she had been raped by several Duke men?...
...that Ford suffers from a lack of talented employees. Scores of ace designers and engineers toil in the ranks, and you can see their work in a handful of recently launched models, like the Mustang, the Mercury Milan and the Ford Fusion, all critical and commercial hits. Ford also became the first American automaker to sell a hybrid SUV, with the Escape model...
...soulless chaos of modernity, it's not enough for someone to do a good job developing/manufacturing/hawking pharmaceuticals--or to be a productive member of society more broadly. Many of us need the deep, underlying purpose of our daily toil spelled out in fancy-pants terms. Why then should parenting be any different? When handing our child a paint set, we want to know we're doing something grander than simply keeping her occupied until dinner. (Expressive planning! Original art!) And since so much of child rearing involves playing the same games, singing the same songs and answering the same questions...