And the station also serves as a place where drama can happen juxtaposed with commuters plodding along with their business.

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The U.S. economy is plodding along in its recovery from the recession that stretched from December 2007 to June 2009.

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The CEO is The Man, plodding along the expected routes, expecting the same of his subordinates, becoming the figurehead of corporate oppression.

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In any case, Syngenta says that it will combine its work with that of a public programme, the International Rice Genome Sequencing Project, which is plodding along to produce an even more accurate version of the sequence, and deposit the whole lot in GenBank by the end of next year.

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