This was some serious bling, representing years of accumulated work.
Matchbox Theatre is the accumulated work of years, comprising the sketches Frayn has made between projects.
Joe Kubert, a comic book artist since 1938, has little interest in the accumulated work of his last seven decades; his focus is on new projects, he said recently.
Mr. Bush has put to use the knowledge that he accumulated working on his father's campaigns, like the political dynamics and history of battleground states, and the names of important local Republicans.
But with two days before a blessed silence descends, a review of the accumulated work of the Bush and Gore spinners suggests that this year has had a surfeit of overstatement, even by conventional standards.
Though forced overtime was one of the complaints the unions brought to the bargaining table, a local union president in Boston said overtime restrictions would be rolled back this week to allow technicians to chip away at the accumulated work requests.
Some of the researchers say that the accumulated work, when it is complete, will also provide a demographic, sociological bonus: the first full human portrait of New York on the morning it was transformed -- who was where, what they saw and felt, what they breathed.
Each profession has its own customs and quirks, but the culture of the New York City school bus driver is certainly one of the more unusual, one built on odd daily and annual schedules, decades of accumulated work rules and above all a deference to seniority.
At 10 years of accumulated work experience, the difference is approximately 20%.
This means that the acquired skills and accumulated working experiences in one industry cannot be transferred into other industries without certain sunk and transitional costs.
