This study did not take into account child care as a household chore -- most commonly performed by women but increasingly embraced by men -- because the data used did not contain useful information about who cares for the kids.
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Choosing an ultra-lite sleeping bag can be a chore now-a-days.
In such cases, wait time, if any, would be short because customers have already done the time-consuming chore of scanning and packing up groceries.
He has taken personal responsibility for the success of the Athens Olympic games in August 2004, a time-consuming chore thanks to infighting among organisers and delays in building new sports and media facilities.
What's worse, the Storm2's implementation requires a surprising amount of effort to actuate, meaning that long messages were a chore to type out -- not only do they wear out your fingers, but it gets old hearing the screen's loud "thunk" each and every time you type a letter, which we find considerably more noticeable than the traditional click of a physical QWERTY keyboard.
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The truth is, most bad headaches -- the ones that make getting through the day a chore or make you feel nauseated or sensitive to light -- are the Big M.
The first three pitches were straightforward, although hauling the pig up blocky, low-angled terrain was a chore.
It's almost as if Motorola forgot to take ergonomics into account when building the devices, making one-handed operation a bit of a chore.
When people are mindful of balancing skill and challenge so that cooking, or shopping, is neither so easy as to be a boring chore nor so hard as to be an anxious-making annoyance pushing the limits of competence and time then enjoyment can be found and increased.
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The keypad is plenty usable, with large metallic keys, but the recessed d-pad makes navigation a bit of a chore.
Fortunately, Web-based services have made even this mundane chore more convenient.
Checking e-mail on your phone is still a chore, and because the phone networks are still building their broadband networks, even getting online with WAP can prove difficult.
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Senate clerks, working in half-hour shifts, were three hours into the chore when Sanders withdrew the amendment in frustration.
The workday was a chore to get through, a mix of mental loopiness and all-out impatience.
Pre-programmed cleaning cycles allow consumers to choose between floor-only cleaning or floor, wall and waterline cleaning, a necessary chore that many pool owners just don't want to do manually.
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We found ourselves reverting to landscape mode to type comfortably, which is a little galling on a 3.7-inch device when the 3.5-inch iPhone has shown that portrait touchscreen keyboards need not be a chore to use.
He joked that there were some duties the Queen enjoyed, such as presenting medals to the country's troops, but others which "were more of a chore, like spending New Year's Eve in the Millennium Dome" - prompting laughter around the chamber.
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