The qualities rewarded there - self-reliance, ambition, single-minded devotion to work - make women unfit for marriage and vice versa.
Finally, there was more compulsive PD in the managers, including perfectionism, excessive devotion to work, rigidity, stubbornness and dictatorial tendencies.
If devotion to work leads to long hours, including unpaid overtime, then even the most committed worker may confront problems of burnout and physical ill health.
With the erosion of the postwar compact that traded a slavish devotion to work for stable wages and benefits, many young people felt alienated.
The root causes, he says, were traits inherited from his father, namely a pursuit of perfectionism and "obsessive devotion to work" at the expense of family.
And her single-minded devotion to work paid off: just as she became adept at collecting gold stars as a schoolgirl, so she graduated from Princeton summa cum laude and, as a prosecutor, began racking up convictions.
But beyond these individual differences lie important commonalities, Mr. Frank said: the fighting community is born of mutual sacrifice and a fervent devotion to work harder, train longer and advance in the sport.
It emphasizes his devotion to work, both personally and in his record, highlighting legislation that shows his compassion for working-class Americans and veterans — and his toughness with welfare recipients.
His availability has been magnified by his nearly full-time devotion to work -- he is unmarried -- and his ability to get by on four to six hours of sleep.
Eight years and several television series later, including a three-season run on "Cybill," he landed the part of Casey McCall, a khaki-clad sportscaster with a passionate devotion to work, on Aaron Sorkin's critically acclaimed but short-lived "Sports Night".
