We at NTC are not alone in addressing problems that are politically unrewarding, financially unviable and yet unsolved.
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Its economic model, based on undercutting European labour costs, means that many of the jobs on offer are unskilled and unrewarding.
But given their current resources and the scale of the problem, customs officials understandably appear to have little appetite for an unrewarding chase.
Coming after the British, and with Germany next due to hold the post, they were handed a lot of unrewarding work in progress.
Relationships with other human beings will increasingly become too troublesome and unrewarding compared with the more immediate satisfactions to be had from the ever-present networked screens.
Although banks in some countries, notably America, Canada and Britain, have been extremely profitable in the past few years, their core lending business is increasingly unrewarding.
More than half of the sacred cantatas were written between 1723 and 1726, when Bach was in the early years of his long, and often unrewarding, appointment as the cantor of the Thomaskirche, in Leipzig.
But George Bush's reception of his two latest guests Egypt's president, Hosni Mubarak, and Israel's prime minister, Ariel Sharon suggests that the administration is not, after all, prepared to take on the unrewarding Middle East ( see article).
"When companies get on the treadmill beating the drum for more earnings growth, it's very tempting to invest too much capital in unrewarding, mature or risky businesses, " says Bennett Stewart , senior partner at the Stern Stewart consulting firm.
Getting at the tax-dodging landowners, tweaking their pride by calling them feudal, was a fairly unrewarding exercise. (And may not even have been fair: there is an argument that in wobbly Pakistan the big landowners are the only centre of stability in some areas.) As perhaps the most persuasive propagandist for the United Nations Development Programme, the publisher of his development reports, Mr Haq had a world audience.
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