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Examples
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Imperial Leadership destroys entrepreneurial endeavors; servant leadership encourages and supports an optimistic and industrious work-ethic.
Today's Video: You Know That This Still Happens Every Day - NASA Watch 2009
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Our last President didn't know what a work-ethic was.
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Ethan Coen assumes office of American work-ethic satirist
With True Grit, the Coen brothers have given the western back its teeth 2011
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He's a work-ethic guy, a tough guy who you know what you're going to get every day.
Virginia Tech progress reports: defensive line Mark Giannotto 2010
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I never really agreed with your politics or lifestyle, but I did admire your work-ethic.
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Since he's all work-ethic these days, we wondered about the status of "Sin City 2," in which he's supposed to reprise the role of the brutal Marv.
Mickey Rourke And Darren Aronofsky: Party People, By Kurt Loder » MTV Movies Blog 2008
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The Americans and the Brits are, in this view, the psycho-sexually repressed victims of their puritan moral heritage and their Protestant work-ethic.
Sex Americana Gerard Baker 2009
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Filmdrunk: where no one questions your lack of work-ethic.
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The guilt and the conflicting pressures are part of my work-ethic run amok which many simply exploit -- and which also has been terrifically heightened by my fears that unless I work harder and smarter than every other person I will once again be homeless and without voice as a victim of the healthcare crisis.
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And the fact they are working is a testament to their work-ethic.
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