Zhang has been toiling away at his goal since 2003.
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And there's it's been toiling away without asking anything in return.
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Everyone seemed to be very content toiling away at their tasks.
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Now, he's much happier than when he was toiling away in a cubicle.
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He might as well be Vincent Adultman toiling away at the business factory.
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Toiling away in factories or unsafe environments like disaster zones and nuclear plants.
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Let that sink in for a minute...Archaeologists toiling away at the Carnoustie site.
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Yet making extra money during retirement doesn't mean toiling away at a mundane job.
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In fact, she's often toiling away behind the scenes and in customer-facing roles.
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There's a peaceful solitude that comes with toiling away at a campaign until completion.
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We weren't working; we weren't toiling away at an actual job or even studying.
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Even in the tumult of the Trump White House, Christopher Liddell is toiling away.
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I'm sitting there just toiling away at this thing, it's taking half an hour.
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Chefs are no longer hidden from the dining room, toiling away at their craft.
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" Will Donna ever acknowledge the women toiling away in the kitchen with a "thank you?
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But someone with such diverse talents would be wasted toiling away at a comedy club.
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It began as a hobby she pursued while toiling away at a day job repairing computers.
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I've been toiling away on the Iron Islands for years, being Iron-born, leading Iron-born.
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One is toiling away in the car park of the West Texas Drillers, the local football team.
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It's a high-drama animation in grayscale, featuring vaguely humanoid creatures toiling away in post-apocalyptic landscapes.
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Instead, we will become serfs of the federal government, toiling away to fund the government's massive obligations.
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UNTIL RECENTLY the image of an entrepreneur was of a thrifty workaholic toiling away in a garage.
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Season 2 takes us there, to the encampment where Emily has been toiling away since she tried to escape.
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But, of course, lots of low-wage workers are toiling away for companies whose owners aren't nearly that rich.
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After toiling away in your cubicle on Monday and Tuesday, head back out Wednesday for the parades and fireworks.
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I'd been toiling away for a decade as an adjunct professor for college freshmen and was never gonna get tenure.
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She created miniature dioramas including one of workers toiling away in a vagina-shaped crevice at Fukushima's damaged nuclear plant.
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He held on for too long, toiling away for two years when he would have been better to pull the plug.
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Each member had spent time, in some cases years, toiling away in this wasteland, banished from the comparatively luxurious world above.
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For many, the view of a successful entrepreneur is a young millennial toiling away at a tech startup in Silicon Valley.
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It's remarkable the lengths employers will go to keep their workers in the building, on campus, at their desks, toiling away.
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For the last 14 years, Jimmy Kimmel has spent 70 hours a week toiling away on his ABC late-night talk show.
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Workers toiling away in the Shenzhen Lanbingcai Latex Crafts Factory churn out hundreds of Trump masks alongside those of less terrifying creatures.
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Instead of toiling away at solo homework assignments and term papers, students operate in an environment that actually approximates the working world.
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A few moments imagining scientists toiling away in different countries unaware of each other's successes and failures is enough to show that.
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After toiling away on the adventure for years, Monument Valley 2 was officially announced — and released — onstage at Apple's WWDC this June.
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It was a working-class male "everything"; women would still be at home toiling away, even in the case of unlikely victory.
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Many who do go away to university return with a mountain of debt before finding themselves toiling away on the minimum wage.
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Not that this has deterred a collection of event curators, toiling away behind the scenes to give you something else to play.
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Not that this has deterred a collection of event curators, toiling away behind the scenes to give you something else to play.
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This great revolution in technology hasn't unleashed a wave of innovation where people are toiling away in their basements and garages now.
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Others work extremely hard, toiling away for a big break, while others save and invest consistently until they have more time than money.
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So when the façade crumbles and we awkwardly confront the humans toiling away inside the machine, everyone is disappointed and sometimes even angry.
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Those lucky enough to get jobs work in unfavourable conditions, toiling away on the sweltering building sites of the Middle East and Singapore.
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No. This was happening while there were real slaves toiling away in America, but she was just a domestic servant earning a paycheck.
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As a 16-year-old model, Hunter McGrady spent hours toiling away in the gym and starving herself to maintain her 163-lb.
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He'd been toiling away on his exercise bike for half an hour a day for years, and things were beginning to get tedious.
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Back in 2003, I was still trying to prove myself, spending countless days (and nights) toiling away as a young editor at style.com.
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It's not as if game developers are toiling away on the factory floor covered in grease while their employers check their pocket watches.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Art-making can often be a solitary process, with hours spent toiling away without any human interaction.
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Toiling away in a cramped bedroom in Austin, making millions without getting the cover of Forbes, he seemed driven by his outsider status.
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But there he is in the teaser for the new season, toiling away in what appears to be a chain gang in Russia.
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And the rover keeps toiling away, collecting samples, analyzing rocks and sending back spectacular photographs of the red planet, along with the occasional selfie.
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There are no guarantees, but you stick with it, toiling away with long hours and intensive training with experts that, to some, resembles apprenticeship.
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But after years of toiling away her waking hours for a pittance, DeCrescenzo married another Scientologist and became pregnant at the age of 17.
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When you spend hours toiling away on a single loaf of burnt banana bread, at least you come away feeling like you've created something.
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She's at work on The Good Place right now, toiling away at season 3, but, she said, her focus is all on her Emmy nomination.
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That makes the relatively obscure officials who have been toiling away on policy and governance issues during the campaign key gatekeepers in Trump's new Washington.
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Although Ara is still toiling away on its piecemeal smartphone, research from Columbia University's computer vision laboratory is making that promise a reality for cameras.
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Less than a year ago, he was toiling away in customer service, helping people buy TVs and hard drives for little more than minimum wage.
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A. Isn't it supposed to be the other way around — like, I'm the one who's on the boat while you're toiling away in the office?
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The upsetting message here is that you could spend hours toiling away in the gym with no reward, if your diet isn't up to scratch.
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Musk shared the video while visiting SpaceX&aposs work yard in Boca Chica, Texas, where workers were toiling away on new domes for the ship.
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But all too often, they end up toiling away in relative obscurity and poverty, neither maximizing their opportunity for impact nor earning the money they deserve.
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The startup has been quietly toiling away building a vertical social network aimed primarily at youth soccer players and bringing transparency to the beautiful game itself.
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" However, to many suspicious of this single woman toiling away at her eclectic cottage on the Lake Michigan shore, she was the "Witch of Fox Point.
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Both are toiling away on Clinton-style smaller ball policies, some of which can win support from Democrats, especially if they take control of the House.
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Egypt had its great library at Alexandria along with a group of brilliant scholars who were toiling away on manuscripts of Homer and other literary texts.
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You know the one: The lone genius toiling away in the garage, equipped with nothing but an idea, a pocket protector and a relentless desire to succeed.
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The chef and his three siblings spent most of their childhoods toiling away in his parents' small Vietnamese restaurant while the family fought to stave off bankruptcy.
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According to a rep I spoke with at today's launch event, Bose was also toiling away on its own sleep solution, at the time of the acquisition.
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Today, the first fruits of that mission are toiling away in an ever-expanding lab located in the basement of Cruise's Bryant Street building in San Francisco.
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The stationary lander has been quietly toiling away and sending back selfies to assure everyone that it's doing just fine, even as MarCO disappears into the void.
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Aside from a few projects, he has remained out of the public eye, quietly toiling away on a mysterious project that he's not quite ready to announce yet.
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The trope of the introverted, antisocial scientist toiling away in their lab is so pervasively embedded in popular culture today that scientists have to actively fight against it.
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Mr. Obama arrived in the Senate in 2005 the darling of Democrats, while Mr. Biden had been toiling away there since 463, working his way through the ranks.
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For members of the Alabama congressional delegation, a shot at a Senate seat is especially tempting now that the alternative is toiling away in the House minority. Rep.
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If you always take the first salary offered — and never ask for a raise once you're happily toiling away for an employer — you're likely to wind up underpaid.
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Don't fret if you've been toiling away for years, waiting for your big shot to come — you could find fame where you least expect it, like at a Walmart.
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And with all those amateur curators toiling away for internet points, casual users are flocking in for an edgier look at what will be the center of attention tomorrow.
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His name was Amenemhat, and he lived in Egypt about 3,500 years ago, toiling away as a royal goldsmith whose work was dedicated to an ancient Egyptian sun god.
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Henry, speaking from a conference room in Mythic's headquarters in Redwood City, California, described his early years toiling away in Blacksburg, Virginia, home to his alma mater Virginia Tech.
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The 24-year-old model said she takes advantage of all of the ways to get a sweat on in nature rather than toiling away on indoor gym equipment.
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How had I, a lowly peon, toiling away in London's media industry like an absolute wanker, with barely 500 followers to my name, so undeservedly received the 6 God's blessing?
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They are among six Greek artists who are toiling away in long-duration performances — eight hours a day for seven weeks, through April 24 — at the Benaki Contemporary Museum here.
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One is the designer Alessandro Michele, who after anonymously toiling away at Gucci for 12 years, was appointed creative director of the 903-year-old Florentine brand in January 2015.
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The pace of mundane tasks hits the level of busyness between boredom and panic that could keep you toiling away like it's 1996 and humans aren't yet heading for obsolescence.
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Enter: Crypto Quantique, a startup out of company builder Entrepreneur First that has been patiently toiling away for the last couple of years trying to solve the IoT security problem.
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There were several experiments with how best to deploy characters added for the Edmonton production in an effort to bring to life, as it were, those toiling away in hell.
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It should have taken three minutes or five minutes... I'm sitting there and I'm just toiling away at this thing, and it's taken half an hour... I was just pretty pathetic.
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While my coworkers were out taking "real" lunch breaks, I was busy toiling away at my desk, eating Sesame Crusted Arctic Char and Truffle Grilled Cheese like a real company man.
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All of this comes as stories roll in about that other consumer electronics maker that has apparently been steadily toiling away on an electric car of its own for some time.
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Nearly all of the teams trying to build a "pod" that will work in Elon Musk's futuristic hyperloop transportation tubes spent months toiling away together in university classrooms engineering their designs.
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A few years earlier he was toiling away as a no-name artist until his arrival in California, where he started painting images of swimming pools that propelled him into superstardom.
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Krawcheck was toiling away in an office where a vice president collapsed from a heart attack by his desk and came back to work a few weeks later only to be fired.
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Like everyone else, it's toiling away on artificial intelligence and machine learning, though it's focused more on building smarts into individual devices rather than in the cloud, like most of its competition.
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Carell, too, turns Riggs into a surprisingly sympathetic figure -- a Peter Pan type, desperate to find some way to avoid wearing a tie and toiling away for his father-in-law's company.
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It has not been an unruly exchange, and Anthony seems to appreciate his new co-star after so many years of toiling away in New York with much acclaim but few wins.
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This will be another game of England toiling away against a side that will back men deep in two banks of four, and look to strike through set-plays and counter-attacks.
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He is every bullshit columnist's dream manifestation of a winner, toiling away in a market that, out of view of national press and the national fanbase, loves the shit out of him.
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You'd just watch scientists toiling away with data from the Hubble Space Telescope and you'd see us at our desks arguing with each other, going to conferences, and nothing would ever happen.
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Toiling away like a fiend, and philandering when he isn't high on something, he makes a mess of his marriage, along with most of the key relationships in his life that follow.
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For 15 years or so, it was toiling away in obscurity, hoping that a costar could turn into a guest star could turn into a recurring could turn into possibly a series regular.
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Dozens of wildfires are burning across the West, from California to Colorado, with thousands of firefighters toiling away in hot, dry weather, trying to prevent the blazes from burning down homes and businesses.
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More recently, master perfumer Jacques Cavallier Belletrud has been toiling away in the elegant building's top-floor lab on a second major launch — Vuitton's first-ever men's colognes, arriving in stores next month.
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Her brain usually spins into productive action around 11 pm or so, and she'll work well into the darkness, night after night, toiling away at whichever of her many projects she's currently occupied with.
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Over the last few years, Grape, the enterprise messaging app backed by Betaworks and Zynga founder Mark Pincus, has been toiling away to build a smarter chat box powered by Natural Language Processing (NLP).
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What we did find, however, was an interesting and inspiring collection of stories for those of us who've been toiling away at something for a long time, with hopes still of striking it big.
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Bumping into this limitations was the point, but it means days, months, and years toiling away at big ideas—like the old version of Total Chaos in a sprawling open world—that eventually proved untenable.
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While most fantasy enthusiasts have likely settled their drafts already, those that take part in daily fantasy leagues like DraftKings and FanDuel are still toiling away to set the perfect lineup before kickoff on Sunday.
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Johnson worked on NASA's Galileo mission to Jupiter, highly classified stealth programs with the government, and now, he's toiling away on some high-tech fabric technology that can store more energy than a phone battery.
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He argues that there are millions of people across the world — clerical workers, administrators, consultants, telemarketers, corporate lawyers, service personnel, and many others — who are toiling away in meaningless, unnecessary jobs, and they know it.
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As the bricks of bad news about Mr. Trump pile up, Republicans have struggled to portray themselves as busy toiling away at the nation's business even though their legislative agenda moves deeper into the abyss.
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If you tap the Workout button on your Apple Watch, you can track the calorie burn on a number of physical activities, including running outside, running on a treadmill, and toiling away on the elliptical machine.
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Neither of the two local teams had played in the Bundesliga since 2000; both were now toiling away in the twilight of the semiprofessional lower leagues, their names stained by fan violence and far-right politics.
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This year's line up has been absurd, with Arcade Fire, Kendrick Lamar, and the newly-reformed LCD Soundsystem heading up the bill and an embarrassment of other huge artists toiling away in the mid-afternoon heat.
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In employing an ever-evolving roster of young, hungry talent to help with production and writing, he gives crucial exposure to artists from Toronto and beyond that they wouldn't get from toiling away on their own.
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He argues that there's something fundamentally obscene about the legion of workers toiling away for low pay in often bleak conditions in its warehouses while the founder of the company becomes the richest man on the planet.
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Teams have filled their rosters with players who are toiling away in lesser leagues or are at the end of their career — and that includes Canada, which went with older players while leaving younger prospects at home.
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Toiling away in his home lab, Perkin noticed that one of his failed experiments resulted in something unique: a purple-colored solution left when the solid substance was mixed with alcohol, according to the Royal Society of Chemistry.
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IMAGE: Wikimedia CommonsOver the past few years, as people have been freaking out about a plan to release genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys, the company behind those mosquitoes has been quietly toiling away on another project.
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But still, if you happen to be the hairdresser who spends every day toiling away doing good work on the prospective POTUS's locks, the attention surrounding the Donald's buzzy coif has got to be a source of contention.
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One day, YOU will be able to purchase the opportunity to win the fortune that you deserve for toiling away from day to day and being a great person to all of the bad people in the world.
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The book featured rhapsodic, lyrical descriptions of the Russian countryside; happy peasants toiling away on collective farms in Ukraine and the Caucasus; and measured depictions of the bleak realities facing government clerks, intellectuals, and factory workers in the cities.
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While you've been toiling away at your 9-to-5 in hopes of being able to someday make a down payment, TMZ reports that Kylie Jenner has gone and purchased her very own $2.7 million home. Just. Like. That.
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Toiling away on judicial appointments and efforts to dismantle regulations, he has rarely accompanied Mr. Trump on trips, and beyond delivering a speech at the annual conference of the conservative Federalist Society in November, has seldom appeared in public.
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Though it's been a while, the band never really broke up, though, instead, focusing on new careers and toiling away at music that reflected their various environments whether it be an office, a radio studio, or a Grey Lynn apartment.
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This third tier is filled with players who spend their time toiling away on specific areas of their game, either expanding their skill-set or better preparing for an increased role in the upcoming season—in games that actually matter.
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From two-time champs Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Adams to rising young mega-talents like Saoirse Ronan not one of them had to scrape at acclaim through some mix of self-created #trending fame, years toiling away at comedy, and moxie.
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During the high harvesting season, from February to April, the salt flats are scattered with hundreds of women toiling away in over 22.5 degrees Celsius (25 degree Fahrenheit), scooping the crystalline mineral into baskets later carried aloft on their heads.
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Since 1989, the Equal Justice Initiative has offered legal services to poor people in prison, toiling away in a city awash in Confederate commemorations (Monday was Confederate Memorial Day in Alabama), in a state with the nation's highest per capita death sentencing rate.
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Mr. Kuehl is among thousands of mostly young workers who spend several weeks each autumn with trays of marijuana on their laps, toiling away in Northern California's so-called Emerald Triangle, a trio of counties known for growing much of America's cannabis.
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While chatting to them, he came across many cases of trafficking and forced labor - men toiling away for up to 18 hours a day in dangerous conditions, unable to come to shore for months, sometimes years, and given little or no pay.
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And let's not forget the religious scholars toiling away on this site, fact-checking in the name of Big J: "To be Baptized is a sigh [sic] to the world that you have accepted Christ to be your "Lord and Savor [sic].
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As hundreds of thousands of people marched on Washington and local state legislatures, exercising their rights to vocally protest the gun lobby, advocates across the country have also been toiling away on a less visible plan for gun reform, taking it state by state.
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But Wattpad disrupts the typical lifecycle of a book, and all associated conventions of the writing process: Debating an MFA, toiling away in solitude, finding an agent to connect the manuscript to an editor, and if you're lucky, getting published a few years later.
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When: Opens Tuesday, February 53, 6–8pm Where: Sprüth Magers (5900 Wilshire Boulevard, Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles) Toiling away in the art mines since before the current crop of art stars were in short pants, John Baldessari is arguably LA's most prominent living artist.
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I guess we should have known when the UFC was purchased by a Hollywood talent agency that the days of the quiet little upstart sports promotion with the quirky ultra-violent reputation toiling away in relative obscurity, even infamy, weren't long for this world.
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If you have ever put one of those thunder jackets on to calm your pooch during a storm (other than to take cute pictures), you know that animals can be more sensitive to natural phenomena than humans, toiling away in windowless, temperature-controlled offices.
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It sounds like a stereotype, but this city of about 7.4 million has hundreds of such businesses, supported by legions of tailors and seamstresses toiling away in drab industrial workrooms tucked into out-of-the-way neighborhoods or across the border in mainland China.
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After toiling away for years and years down in the south west's capital city of culture, he now finds himself topping bills in some of the hugest clubs on the planet, and playing festival after festival, everywhere from Croatia to Carmarthen—if they have a festival there.
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Sure, the Dutch company has offered up a couple of iterations on the theme, including the larger Ultimaker 2 Extended and the portable Ultimaker 2 Go (which inspired this bizarre bit of gear), but the company has mostly been toiling away working on the next big sequel.
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It was quieter on a recent tour, with big dogs milling around the big-dog room and small dogs frisking in their own more modestly scaled quarters — all of the action captured on webcam for the benefit of owners who were traveling or toiling away at work.
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In that sense, The Last Job on Earth is a brief but grounded glimpse into what our future may look like when all nearly every occupation has been optimized out of the equation and toiling away for a living turns into doing nothing all the time.
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It's an approach that may feel familiar to a stealth-mode startup: Toiling away behind an iron curtain of non-communication, only to suddenly emerge from the darkness to reveal an incontrovertibly amazing and technically pristine product that will shame all those who ever questioned it.
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It usually takes years toiling away with 3D modeling programs at development studios before you can redesign some of video gaming's biggest names, but thanks to Sony's new PlayStation coloring book, you can make a stab at it with some crayons and a bit of creativity.
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Even though we should probably feel lucky we have jobs, lots of young people with Monday-Friday, 29-24 gigs often suppress their hatred of toiling away in front of screens, doing things they don't like in order to pay rent, by obliterating themselves on weekends.
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No. 3, Capote's, still looked much as he had described it, a large room with a high, vaulted ceiling, where I could imagine him toiling away on "Summer Crossing," a previously tossed aside novel that he had once again picked up and was published posthumously in 2005.
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Mr. Castor, 46, has spent more than a decade toiling away in relative obscurity on a wide range of House-run investigations for the Oversight and Reform Committee, including the inquiry into the Obama administration's handling of the attack on the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.
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It all sounds too good to be true: A server pays her dues toiling away as a back waiter, then turns her experience into a brilliant work of art and sells it for a handsome fee when the right person just happens to be seated in her section.
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Fultz said the following during his media session on Wednesday: Markelle Fultz, toiling away in the obscurity of junior varsity basketball and getting cut, eventually put himself in position to be the No. 1 overall pick in the NBA draft, all the while telling himself to Trust the Process.
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And three of her most winning stories in "The State We're In" follow a delightfully disaffected high schooler named Jocelyn, stuck with her aunt and uncle for the summer, toiling away on a makeup essay on magical realism while she (mostly) ignores the charms of the state's south coast.
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The irony of this didn't escape me: While I'd been drawn to freeze-dried food as a convenient way of preparing for a cataclysm that may never come, there I was, toiling away for hours in the kitchen to prepare a dish I'd be eating that night and the next day.
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This is why players cheat: because once you get far enough through that maze—once you get to your late arbitration years or, god willing, your free agent years—you've ensured you'll never be like those guys making league minimum or, god forbid, still toiling away in the minors for less than a living wage.
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The Netflix model is just too enticing for a TV creator, offering them a degree of freedom and flexibility that is virtually unknown to those toiling away producing seasons of network TV. Those seasons must fit a very specific structure: typically 22 episodes that are 43 minutes each, with the rest of the hour allocated for commercials.
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Given the intensity of their past-life romance, it's surprising that Aciman decides to keep the two separated for almost the entire novel: Elio living in Paris and embarking on a relationship with a sensitive and much older Frenchman, Oliver toiling away in New York City, unhappily married to a woman, with whom he has two sons.
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Many liken it to Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (a story Judge has not yet read), and I still recall a high-school English teacher invoking the movie in an effort to impress on the class what Franz Kafka's life was like, toiling away by day at an insurance company in the twilight of the Hapsburg empire.
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In addition to gender stereotypes, there's a lot that Tom is behind-the-curve on, like not realizing he's accomplished enough to open his own restaurant instead of spending more years toiling away as a sous chef, or that years are passing by for him and his fiancee Violet Barnes (Emily Blunt) as they plan—or continue to postpone—their wedding.
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Pence and Ryan arrived in the House at around the same time — 1998 for Ryan, 2000 for Pence — and both spent years toiling away on the right flank of their caucus, with Pence chairing the Republican Study Committee from 2007 to 2009 and Ryan leading the charge for a Social Security privatization scheme too radical for even the Bush administration in 2005.
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After toiling away for weeks on a hard-fought compromise bill that tackled border security and even delivered Trump his campaign promise of a border wall, Republican aides and members involved in the discussions were taken aback by the President's impromptu interview with Fox News on the White House lawn where Trump insinuated he wouldn't support a bill that had been negotiated with his administration's involvement.
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All the more odd, then, that a full 10 years after Bent superseded Defoe in the Spurs ranks, the former can be found toiling away semi-fruitlessly in England's second tier while Defoe, a year his senior, is in the most emphatically prolific form of his life, his unremitting flow of goals having single-handedly kept Sunderland's head above water for two years and counting.
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But others — scratching out lives in developing countries in Africa, toiling away at jobs with little pay in Latin America or scrambling to raise children without help in the Middle East — most likely had little time left over to reflect on the day designated to celebrate "the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women," and as a call to action, according to the website.
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