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Increasing it by five years, Lady Justice Hallett said watching the footage had been "an extraordinarily unpleasant task".

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Parker, who felt that he had earned the right to the big office, had the unpleasant task of helping to pick his new boss.

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While today we are a successful growth company executing on a powerful vision, not so long ago, SAP was faced with the very unpleasant task of cutting 3000 people from its payroll worldwide when software sales dropped sharply during the economic crisis in 2009.

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