Curiously for a place that has such industrious people, Turkey does not have an especially good record in business.

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This line-up of holidays at the beginning of May gives people almost ten days off of work (a perk that might inspire envy in many industrious people in the US).

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These were not just good stories about industrious and clever people posting catchy videos and snagging millions of views.

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By easing immigration for high-skill workers -- many of them trained in the United States at taxpayer expense -- we get a return on our investment and retain industrious and innovative people.

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For all the challenges we face, this country is still home to the most entrepreneurial, most industrious, most determined people on the planet.

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I'm optimistic about our economic future, because Americans have shown time and again that they are the most industrious, creative and enterprising people in the world.

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In the relaxed, jolly faces around me is the sense of a way of life that is industrious, simple and integrated into a landscape and a community - the lives of contented people.

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