But in the meantime the spirit of new beginnings is a hard one to temper.
This is a hard one to call, since it's a local derby where anything can happen.
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Mr Osborne's budget puts Britain on the path to fiscal redemption, but that path is a hard one.
Next year, however, remains a hard one to call for global IT firms.
Then again, 7% growth instead of 10% growth is a soft landing, not a hard one for China, Li says.
All those pledges to remember, next time you check into a hotel, whether you like a soft pillow or a hard one: they have an impact.
While the visual of 22-year-old bloggers lashed to their laptops 14 hours a day is a hard one to shake, life at Gawker these days is very different from a few years ago.
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Imports remained weaker than hoped for, but still, most economists from major investment houses from Barclays to Schroeders have projected that China will achieve a soft landing in the fourth quarter, not a hard one.
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For someone with a lot of cash invested in a collection of iTunes media, the Apple TV seems a solid -- if pricey -- buy, but for most people with more diverse media collections and saner pocketbooks, this is a hard one to recommend.
However, as Peter Boone and Simon Johnson of the Peterson Institute in Washington, DC, explain, Germany then signalled that defaults could happen and that investors would have to bear a share of the losses a reasonable demand, but a hard one to introduce in the middle of a crisis.
Yes, there are, but you might have a hard time finding one.
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Even though Subbaraman places that chance of a hard landing at one-in-three, he noted the situation has been improving since June 2011.
Whenever such a major celebrity has such a hard fall, one question that often comes up is, what do you tell the kids about it?
Were it not for some slight beveling between the keys, you'd have a hard time telling one key from the other without looking down at your fingers.
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The question is a hard enough for one to answer, but one fact is clear: the answer would surely be strikingly different depending on what time period one is speaking about.
It is a hard decision, but one we feel strongly about.
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Taylor's Richards is a hoot yet she almost gets upstaged by another character, which is hard to do in a one-woman show.
Fifth, they cannot be seen as taking a biased approach to sovereign debt risks, a hard stance on Europe (downgrading the one country after another) and a soft on the US. Already, a number of European countries are pushing for the creation of European credit agencies that would threaten the credit agency oligopoly.
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If you have a lot of information gathered in one place and it is from a lot of different places, it may be hard for one human being to keep track of it all.
Predicting the payoffs of winning a company are hard, but imagining how a city overpays for one is easy.
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As a labor leader, however, I would have a hard time crossing any picket line, even a virtual one.
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Still, loan modification can be the right choice if it makes monthly payments more realistic after a cold, hard look at one's finances.
MHz Pentium laptop with 16 megabytes of memory and a one-gigabyte hard drive, and it will get as confused as any human shopper might.
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