Alejandro worked long hours, and months might pass between his visits, whereas Luz often came by to chat with my mother or to play with us.
For months he worked long into the night as the world's only officer-grade, M.B.A.-trained janitor.
As the crisis unfolded in recent months, Mr. Kashkari worked long hours alongside Mr. Paulson, helping to deal with the bailouts of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the American International Group in turn, while working in secret on what became the $700 billion rescue package — a project code-named Break the Glass because it was to be used only as a last-resort emergency measure.
I was lucky to work with him as an actor and witness first hand the magic of what made him a legend -- the wit and other worldly improv skills -- as well as see him single handedly put the morale of a movie set, easily hundreds of people, on his shoulders and kept everyone laughing as they worked long hours for what seemed like months on end.
Microsoft's move puts it at odds with a generally held view in Silicon Valley that stock options are an essential tool for assembling highly motivated teams of technology experts who are willing to work long hours over months or years, gambling that in the end the stock market value of their options will justify their efforts.
Only the most brainwashed executive can possibly be motivated to work long days, weeks, months and years to maximize the value of faceless, nameless shareholders who blow off the company if they wake up in the morning in a bad mood.
"There's a feeling that if I go any further, if I keep walking in that direction, something's going to get me". Last year, Temple spent two months working long hours inside the hospital.
For both women there is relief in returning to work after long months of what Ms. Heche called "enforced relaxation".
Matt had begun a new job months before, working long hours and making a lot of money.
The maid had just told them that she was leaving after more than four months of working long hours without pay and eating nothing but morsels of food left on the children's plates.
