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He said the bank had decided in late 2007 to rein in lending, a policy that proved "a hard pill to swallow" for some executives at the bank.
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This can be a hard pill for neoclassical economists and those who think like them to swallow, but it helps if you think of the minimum wage as it really is: a minimum productivity law.
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Translating medical research into practice is never easy, but Dr. Ben Abella, a co-author on the Circulation paper and the clinical research director of the Center for Resuscitation Science, says that hypothermia is an especially hard pill for some to swallow.
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Now, it might seem crazy that U.S. taxpayers would be called upon to bail out, you know, the Royal Bank of Scotland, or UBS. But Secretary Paulson says, you know, these banks do a lot of business in the U.S., they employ a lot of people here, but you can expect that that will be a hard pill for a lot of Americans to swallow.
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As many pundits had occasion to observe in 2010, the 50th anniversary of the pill, it is hard to think of anything else that has changed life so quickly and dramatically for so many.
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An experimental Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) pill shrank thyroid tumors, another hard-to-treat cancer.
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Dr Djerassi credits the Pill with pushing him beyond the hard edges of chemistry to consider the softer (ie, social and ethical) dimensions of new technology.
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An experimental Pfizer pill shrank thyroid tumors, another hard-to-treat cancer.
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