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PWE
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PWEPseudo-Wire Emulation
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PWEPuritan Work Ethic
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Airlines, tour operators and hotel chains are all hard at work undermining the Puritan Work Ethic with a smorgasbord of special offers for the "business extender," ranging from half-price hotel rooms (with "welcome" fruit baskets, flowers, Champagne and a "personal thank-you" from the assistant deputy house manager) to elaborately packaged mini-vacations (with "gourmet" dinners, tickets to a show, golf and tennis), insidiously favoring double occupancy.
Extending the Pleasure Principle by Airguide Online
Such planning goes against a 500-year Puritan work ethic that stiff shuns the dole in favor of welfare-to-work programs.
Dealing with redundancy: will universal education in a free-market ... by Castagner, James Ottavio / University Business
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