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If gender comes into it at all, it is as an afterthought, a preference, the sprinkle of hundreds and thousands on your working-life ice cream sundae.
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At the same time, the duration of the working-life span has materially increased.
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In fact, there was always a great deal of the fine gentleman about the great chemist, -- almost too fine for the quiet tenor of a working-life.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various
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She died at Yanovka, where she had spent her working-life and had brought up her children.
My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930
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Its sphere is the street, the market-place, the working-life of the world.
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His working-life, which had been spent chiefly under canvas or in temporary shelters where a man could sleep, eat, and write letters, was bound up with the opening and guarding of irrigation canals, the handling of two or three thousand workmen of all castes and creeds, and the payment of vast sums of coined silver.
The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900
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The shortening of this working-life of the workman is due both to a lengthening of the necessary period of preparation, and to the demand of these processes for so full a use of the workman's forces that even the beginning of senescence will count as
An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation Thorstein Veblen 1893
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There are amongst us many who daily quiver under the venomous gibe of neighbor and fellow-workman, and find that their acceptance of Jesus Christ as Saviour and Master has suddenly changed their family and working-life from a garden of roses into a bed of thorns.
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These charges comprise investment expenses due to exiting the solar-wafer business, an addition to pension provisions, and provisions for additional phased-early-retirement quotas, for working-life accounts and for personnel measures at WACKER SILICONES and Siltronic.
Presseportal redaktion@presseportal.de 2010
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"By 2030, and assuming that Basic State Pension is re-indexed to earnings, it is more likely than today that lifetime low earners will be able to replicate working-life living standards in retirement," he said.
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