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  • For some people, who can see no other solution, enduring the routine and boredom of daily "have-to" travel has been made more tolerable by looking forward to long-planned "want-to" trips -- almost as if pain accumulated now can at some point be exchanged for pleasure.

    Tony Hiss: Deep Travel Tony Hiss 2010

  • This holds true both for routine travel -- the "have-to" trips of every day -- and for more extraordinary "want-to" travel, whether that involves a quick getaway or a dream vacation.

    Tony Hiss: Deep Travel Tony Hiss 2010

  • This holds true both for routine travel -- the "have-to" trips of every day -- and for more extraordinary "want-to" travel, whether that involves a quick getaway or a dream vacation.

    Tony Hiss: Deep Travel Tony Hiss 2010

  • Bradley's "desire, want-to and will to play is there," London said.

    'Several scenarios' in place for how Virginia offensive line will shake out Saturday Steve Yanda 2010

  • Aggregate these numbers and the "have-to" part of travel already outweighs the "want-to" part, since 87 minutes a day amounts to more than two-and-a-half weeks out of each year, already overshadowing the standard two-week vacation.

    Tony Hiss: Deep Travel Tony Hiss 2010

  • Linebacker Michael Boley called the playmaking, big and small on both sides of the ball, "want-to."

    The Giants Succeed by Learning to Share Aditi Kinkhabwala 2011

  • For some people, who can see no other solution, enduring the routine and boredom of daily "have-to" travel has been made more tolerable by looking forward to long-planned "want-to" trips -- almost as if pain accumulated now can at some point be exchanged for pleasure.

    Tony Hiss: Deep Travel Tony Hiss 2010

  • Aggregate these numbers and the "have-to" part of travel already outweighs the "want-to" part, since 87 minutes a day amounts to more than two-and-a-half weeks out of each year, already overshadowing the standard two-week vacation.

    Tony Hiss: Deep Travel Tony Hiss 2010

  • Blake has lost his confidence, his fire, his want-to.

    James Blake BLASTS Pam Shriver At Wimbledon 2010

  • This has been on my want-to see list ever since I read about its re-emergence a year or so ago.

    Overlord & The Futility of War 2007

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