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Le Bec Fin, Le Cirque, Lutèce, Le Bernardin, the pristine white traiteur in SoHo where the woman in a white blouse and black pencil skirt served tiny, perfectly roasted chickens for a splurge, the elaborate dacquoise with cognac buttercream I was asked to develop for a cookbook, the chic coq au vin we labored over for French Club — this was French cuisine!

After work we meet and it is light, because we only labored for twelve hours.

Many of the children we interviewed labored for 50 to 60 hours a week in sweltering heat, often without shade.

So we labored under that fear for a long time.

"I have many, many friends of all races and religions, and I look forward to working hand-in hand with them all as we labor to improve our nation for future generations.

"Any time there is anything negative in the press, we roll our eyes and say, 'Oh jeez, just what we need.' " Pawnshops have labored for decades to shake off a stubborn reputation for shadiness and desperation, codified in popular culture, like in the 1964 film "The Pawnbroker".

He labored for years to fix every error.

Yet even this felt too labored for the artist.

Last Wednesday against the Nationals, he labored for 91.

Pinedo labored for years for other upholstery companies.

The company he labored for damn well owned him.