Word: toils
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...Support, though, is hard to come by in countries where unemployment is skyrocketing and competition for jobs fierce. Oil palm plantations in Malaysia, which involve intense toil under the hot sun, were once the exclusive province of migrant labor, but laid-off Malaysians like former factory worker Palani Kandasamy are turning to this sort of work. "The pay is lower, but it is impossible to live in the city without a job," he says. Kandasamy now harvests oil palm fruit in a plantation south of Kuala Lumpur...
...Webb's world, where the less privileged toil, is also alive in the city. One can still hear the sound of mahjong tiles under a creaky ceiling fan, slurp down a steaming mug of milky tea and catch sight of a skeletal old man hoisting crates onto a waiting ship. Unlike the late '30s, when poor immigrants remained huddled around the city's port, these sights and smells are scattered across Singapore in thousands of hawker centers, provision shops, public-housing estates and factories...
...story that seemed part financial doctoral thesis and part financial thriller, Markopolos told of his years of toil on the Madoff case, with often "disastrous meetings" with SEC enforcement chiefs. It was in 2005 when Markopolos wrote his now famous and lengthy report detailing Madoff's giant Ponzi scheme and pointing out 29 red flags. He sent it to the SEC, and nothing happened. But when he finally met the SEC's Boston branch chief, Mike Garrity, who had a willingness to "think outside the box," he felt some hope...
...federal government does have to make another large series of investments in this industry, companies like Citi will end up like AIG (AIG), Fannie Mae (FNM), and Freddie Mac (FNM), vassals who toil in the fields guided by the whims of Congressional committees and the financial arms of the administration...
...There was little change in either team’s lineup in the game’s final periods, despite the fact that both Kenyi and Lin entered extra time with four fouls each, one short of expulsion. The toil of long minutes seemed to affect the players, as each team missed shots in its first two possessions of the second overtime. It wasn’t until Huskies junior Manny Adako banked in a jumper that more points were tallied, as Northeastern went up, 68-66, with 2:40 to play in the period...