1.   But both have been up to the task all year.

2.   For mutual fund managers, beating the returns of benchmark stock market indexes has been no easy task this year.

3.   Rubin also reminded IRS critics that the agency undertakes a massive task every year.

4.   The Democratic senatorial candidates have a particularly difficult task this year because of the way the political calendar falls.

5.   The task this year is complicated by the fact that the Senate is evenly divided between the parties.

6.   Meanwhile, a television report said police would make it their major task this year to fight drug trafficking.