Despite these little breaks, the tasks of the world are accomplished.
But when my editor gave me the task of exploring the world of men and makeup -- having read reports of increased use of makeup by male politicians and celebrities -- how could I resist?
When America dominated NATO and led a rigid Pacific alliance system with Japan, South Korea, Australia and Thailand, it successfully managed the Herculean task of running the world from one side of it.
In any case, despite the great sympathy Plato expresses for the desire to shed one's body and live in an incorporeal world, he devotes an enormous amount of energy to the task of understanding the world we live in, appreciating its limited beauty, and improving it.
Gen. Mark S. Martins is the man with the difficult task of selling the world on the legitimacy of the proceedings.
It would be a mistake to think that the task of understanding the world requires only the discernment of identical elements across different individuals, together with measurements of quantity on specified dimensions.
That was the clear message to be drawn from the debut of the bank's new governor, Haruhiko Kuroda, brought in with the specific task of lifting the world's third biggest economy out of deflation.
Ms. Maxwell learned on the job, beginning with the sink-or-swim task of convincing the world at large -- and donors in particular -- that there should be a company at all.
In early October, when the effort to reach a budget-deficit agreement with Congress was making large demands on his time, George Bush acknowledged that the task of mobilizing the world's opposition to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait--and foreign policy in general--gave him more satisfaction than any challenges on the domestic front.
Economists have compared the task of lowering the world economy's carbon footprint now the equivalent of about 50 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year to turning a cruise ship.
But Chinese and American officials now meeting at the State Department, for two days of talks that began on Tuesday, have the task of preventing the world's most important relationship from drifting to what both sides increasingly acknowledge is a dangerous level of distrust.
