Mathai testified earlier that she slept in a closet, worked long days without vacation, days off or sick time and wasn't allowed to leave the property, a palatial stone mansion on a cliff overlooking the Mohawk River.

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For all the discomforts, the long hours, and no days off, there is an incentive - extra pay.

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Only fellow cosmonauts have stayed in space longer, including the long-duration champion, Sergey Avdeyev, who on three missions spent 747 days off the planet.

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As long as that high remains intact, additional sell-off could be seen in the days ahead.

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Her husband, Anzor Tsarnaev, is expected to step off a flight in the United States in the coming days after a long journey from Dagestan.

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There's long been pressure domestically in Britain to ease off the budget cuts, but in the past few days the International Monetary Fund also chimed in.

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Some half-dozen analysts and consultants have offered assessments of the nuptials' supposed economic impact, echoing a long-running debate in the U.K. and the rest of Europe about whether workers have so many days off that the economy suffers.

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