The employee refused to complete the assignment, arguing that it was not one of the tasks listed in her job description.

Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.

As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.

On my first day in the office, I was tasked with sorting a pile of invoices.

By 1966 the building was considered so unsafe that the Royal Engineers were tasked with demolishing it.

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