But officials have put in months of legwork on the negotiations, and they were optimistic as the deal talks formally began.
During five visits to Uganda, Mr. Just found that older systems for lost children depended on lots of legwork, picture walls and suitcases full of paper-based forms that were manually entered into large databases.
"Ogilvy Entertainment did quite a bit of legwork" on the potential partnership, said Roxanne Bernstein, senior brand manager for Crystal Light at the Kraft office in Tarrytown, N.Y., and determined "there's a really great fit that exists between Estelle and the Crystal Light brand".
I've done a lot of legwork on the computers-in-education beat.
Whatever their final selection process, the curators obviously put in heroic amounts of legwork, not only on the well-traveled Williamsburg-Dumbo circuit, but also at galleries and studios in a borough that has many art worlds, in Red Hook, Crown Heights, Bedford-Stuyvesant and elsewhere.
There's a whole lot of legwork that goes on between having a great idea for a product and actually getting that product onto the shelf.
Investigators often relied instead on laborious legwork, tracking inconsistent fish names on paperwork as seafood moved across international borders.
This feature is helpful to Facebook, allowing it to encourage rapid growth of its users' networks — by cutting down on the legwork required to find friends on the service — and therefore fuel overall user growth of its service.
"Brian is very excited and honoured," said his spokesman, before neglecting to add, "Brian really doesn't know what's going on and the Wondermints do all the on stage legwork anyway".
That (and his four years of legwork) finally got Herzog on board with the region's largest distributor; his beer now travels on trucks alongside kegs and 24-packs of Budweiser and Labatt.
