Word: toils
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Nevertheless, it’s absolutely been worth the toil...
...always been part of O’Mary’s job. As sometime speechwriter, advance man and travel aide for some of the biggest names in Democratic politics, he’s part of a corps of self-effacement, the anonymous suits and volunteer drudges that toil behind the candidate...
...lined face tells of toil and distress. Three years after Munich she married an older man, Neil Innes, a fundamentalist Christian contemptuous of competitive sport. They drove across the continent to Western Australia, where they bought land and practiced subsistence farming while raising four children...
...food, soft drinks and coffee as they surf mountains of intelligence reports for the latest potential threat to Americans. These are the men and women of the year-old Terrorist Threat Integration Center (TTIC). As they sit at gray, modular workstations equipped with secure computer terminals and phones, their toil is long and arduous but never dull. "It's day right now in half the world, so this shift's pretty fast paced," says an official. "In another hour, it's morning prayers in East Africa. It's morning already in Kabul...
...track approval to pursue FTAs; Howard saw a chance to prise open the U.S. agricultural market. This FTA (following agreements between Australia and New Zealand and between the U.S. and Canada) is only the third between developed nations. Many minor FTAs are being written that have not required the toil and sweat of the AUSFTA. But as with exercise, no pain, no gain. The agreement, while far from ideal for either country, will be a model for deals between rich countries that negotiate from strong positions but are nevertheless pursuing divergent goals. After plenty of haggling, the so-called "playing...