It is true that Russia's problem is a lack of hard currency, not a lack of hard assets.
We might work hard but lack the vision, the confidence to take risks or the willingness to devote ourselves to career at the expense of all else.
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The top three reasons were a shortage of available applicants, a lack of the hard skills required among applicants and lack of experience among potential hires.
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Bank disclosure is sketchy, and the market is hard to evaluate for lack of information.
Another customer, Dyane Fletcher, said a lot of people in the area affected had been "hit hard" by the lack of signal.
Many of its leading lights actually prefer other voting systems: it will be hard to disguise that lack of enthusiasm during the referendum campaign.
An antiquated financial system, poor infrastructure, an unskilled labor force, lack of hard data and a government bureaucracy that is ranked bottom by Transparency International are detrimental.
It is indicative of leniency the U.S. that more detainees have been transferred or released outright because of lack of hard evidence that continue to be held in Guantanamo.
But once it launched, the campaign appeared to be bedeviled by a lack of hard dollars that it needed to pay staff, travel the country and pay filing fees to state parties.
Users will likely be let down by the paltry 1.46GHz Intel Celeron M 410 processor, 512MB of DDR2 RAM, 60GB hard drive, and lack of Bluetooth, but hey, you get what you pay for.
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Israel is seen as powerful and its enemies are seen as weak, despite the fact that Israel has had to work very hard to overcome its lack of natural resources and a geographical periphery plagued by hostility.
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Even new leadership will be hard pressed to buck the lack of innovation and consumer interest weighing down the industry.
We probably tried too hard to compensate for a lack of performance.
Many major-league baseball critics argue that the lack of a hard salary cap eliminates roughly half of the 30 teams from winning the World Series.
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Gates slammed the machine design, including its lack of a hard drive--though some techies suspected he was vexed by the computers' use of Linux, which rivals Microsoft 's Windows operating systems.
He also says that Apple (AAPL) has set the stage for mainstream adoption of Flash in SSD applications, a reference to the lack of a hard drive in both the iPad tablet and the new versions of the MacBook Air notebooks.
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Gates slammed the machine design, including its lack of a hard drive--though some techies suspected he was vexed by the computers' use of Linux, which rivals Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Windows operating systems.
There are dramas within the empire: Mr Hassenfeld, who seems to lack the stomach for hard decisions, delays a reorganisation of the company too long.
We must also eliminate barriers for those students who work hard to acquire STEM skills but lack the funds to attend four-year colleges by providing scholarship programs and support through organizations like NACME ( National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering), Society of Women Engineers (SWE), and Industry groups like the American Council of Engineering Companies.
Bitcoin is ideal for this because its lack of intermediaries makes it hard to regulate.
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It makes the lack of live TV deal hard to take for Froch, especially considering he is British boxing's only world champion.
Even if Schneiderman wanted to go after banks in the matter he would have a hard time doing so because of the lack of evidence and documents the AGs have managed to gather.
The lack of standardization makes it hard to summarize and measure how the industry as a whole is doing, which leads people to underestimate how much music is being produced and how much money is being earned.
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Hull pressed hard for a late equaliser but continued to lack the killer instinct in the final third.
Lack of foreign exchange makes it hard to import even the barest necessities.
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So to Amazon, to Overstock, to every etailer out there big or small, I say take a hard look at your abandonment efforts, or lack thereof.
Regulators are finding it hard to crack this problem, not through lack of will or imagination but because they are being excessively cautious, seeking certainty before they act.
Jonathan Hopkin of the London School of Economics says that Britain's good reputation is not entirely misplaced, but the lack of reliable measures makes it hard to be sure.
The transcripts of Mr Papoulias's final three meetings, made public at the request of Alexis Tsipras, a rising political star and leader of Syriza, a hard-left coalition, reveal a disturbing lack of vision.
First off, the 2012 Obama budget and the Republican Budget proposal are so incredibly different, second is the lack of potential to reach any agreement, and finally the lack of willingness to address the hard issues.
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