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work-in

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Interesting fact
In 1832, in Paisley, Scotland the first municipal water filtration works was opened
  1. (n) work-in
    occasion when workers continue to work as a protest against e.g. proposed dismissal or closure of the factory
Quotations
Telling lies does not work in advertising.
Tim Bell
All work and no play makes one the wealthiest man in the cemetery.
Source Unknown
William Shakespeare
Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.
William Shakespeare
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
Charles Edwin Carruthers
Leonard Cohen
In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
Leonard Cohen
Matthew Fox
Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.
Matthew Fox
Idioms

All in a day's work - If something is all in a day's work, it is nothing special.

Spanner in the works - (UK) If someone puts or throws a spanner in the works, they ruin a plan. In American English, 'wrench' is used instead of 'spanner'.

Throw a spanner in the works - (UK) If you throw a spanner in the works, you cause a problem that stops or slows progress on something that was going well.

Wrench in the works - (USA) If someone puts or throws a wrench, or monkey wrench, in the works, they ruin a plan. In British English, 'spanner' is used instead of 'wrench'.

Usage in the news

A researcher at work in a medical laboratory in a file photo. vancouversun.com

Trevor Paque at work in San Francisco in a garden his company planted in a client's backyard. nytimes.com

Williams, co-owner of Knoxville Cleaners in the 3000 block of Chapman Highway, works in his store last week in South Knoxville. knoxnews.com

A controversial plan to raise the cost of registering your car in California could soon be in the works in Sacramento. abclocal.go.com

This works in probably 90 percent of the jobs I worked on. fueloilnews.com

Work-life balance–an essential work in progress . modernhealthcare.com

In this May 2, 2012 file photo, Lufthansa cabin personnel work in a Boeing 747-8 plane at the airport in Frankfurt. kansascity.com

But this year some special interest groups in South Carolina are working in the legislature to change that law and the way it's used in a courtroom. msnbc.msn.com

Donna DeCesare, an assistant professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas in Austin, has been awarded a five-month Fulbright Research Fellowship to continue her work in Colombia. nppa.org

He credited the "collapse of mainstream" Hollywood for an influx of "people who used to work in the mainstream going into indie work" and mentioned films in this year's festival from studio veterans Spike Lee and Stephen Frears. nypost.com

Pepco linemen express pride in how hard they worked in the aftermath of a powerful and destructive storm in late June. ashingtonpost.com

The three women have worked in other salons together throughout their careers, but opened Bella Amici in Bel Air in 2004. baltimoresun.com

Even Americans who are lucky enough to have work in this economy are becoming more unhappy with their jobs, according to a new survey that found only 45 percent of Americans are satisfied with their work. fox51.com

SAVAGE LIVED IN NEW YORK AND CHICAGO, where she worked in corporate America for 25 years, before settling in New Albany. columbusmonthly.com

Work-life balance is the biggest attraction to working in the public sector. pwmag.com

Usage in scientific papers

Since we are working in spectral gaps, we use the Combes-Thomas estimate of [BCH, Proposition 3.2] (see also [KlK1, Theorem 3.5]–its proof, based on [BCH, Lemma 3.1], also works for Schr¨odinger operators with magnetic fields), adapted to finite volume as in [GK2, Section 3].
Delocalization for Random Landau Hamiltonians with Unbounded Random Variables

In Section II we review previous theoretical work, in particular the scenario for conformality originally proposed in Refs. [3, 4], and define our strategy.
Evidence for a conformal phase in SU(N) gauge theories

As is customary in the case of random matrix theory, we work in an asymptotic setting with N and n both tending to infinity, and their ratio n/N tending to a constant γ ∈ (0, ∞).
Minimax rank estimation for subspace tracking

Typically, there will be some vertices of Ct whose neighbours have not all been exposed; since we are working in the configuration model, this is equivalent to saying that there are some vertex-copies of vertices in Ct whose partners in the configuration have not been exposed.
The scaling window for a random graph with a given degree sequence

As explained in Section 2.4, it suffices to work in the infinite strip S = R × [0, 2] where the extension F of the random homeomorphism h is non-trivial.
Random Conformal Weldings

Usage in literature

Some specimens of his work in this specialty still exist in Seville. "A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture" by Clara Erskine Clement

She had never worked in a factory; the very idea had appalled her, yet she must work. "Working With the Working Woman" by Cornelia Stratton Parker

Their work is with the little children, and there is no better work in the world. "The Canadian Girl at Work" by Marjory MacMurchy

Civitali's chief work in sculpture was the tomb of Pietro da Noceto in the same cathedral. "A History of Art for Beginners and Students" by Clara Erskine Clement

The change of manner in William Hunt's work, in the later part of his life, was an example of this. "On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2)" by John Ruskin

They're the stuff we work in. "The Creators" by May Sinclair

Besides the usual work of weeding, cultivating, and harvesting of their crops, the pupils should undertake some work in seed selection. "Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study" by Ontario Ministry of Education

What is true of Whitman in respect to his technique is true in greater or less degree of every artist, working in any form. "The Gate of Appreciation" by Carleton Noyes

In order that the Orphan House may be accessible to me, as my place at present is fixed by my other work in Bristol. "The Life of Trust: Being a Narrative of the Lord's Dealings With George Müller" by George Müller

Whether working as a brakesman or an engineer, his mind was always full of the work in hand. "Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson" by Samuel Smiles

Usage in poetry
View me, Lord, a work of thine!
Shall I then lie downed in night?
Might thy grace in me but shine,
I should seem made all of light.
Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because,
Unto my seeming, there doth lurk
A lawlessness about her laws,
More mood than purpose in her work.
When our obedient bands have done
A thousand works of righteousness,
We put our trust in God alone,
And glory in his pardoning grace.
To works, but not to working dead;
From sin, but not from sinning freed,
I clear myself from no offence,
Yet wash mine hands in innocence.
I'm a builder, which is working smartly
O'er the temple, arising in a haze,
Seek for fame for my beloved country
As in Heavens, so on the earth.
Or rather, since that Power expressed
His greatness in his works alone,
Being here best in his creatures known,
Why is he not loved in them best?