While it's easy to understand how the Mafia can pique initial audience interest, industries such as media, finance, tobacco and aluminum siding are hardly as inherently fascinating to outsiders.
In much the same way, lawyers and accountants surely make up a substantial percentage of our economy too, but as facilitators of economic growth, as opposed to producers, reform that reduces their role in the economy could hardly be seen as a bad thing.
Other than inventing the scale-based supply-chain-squeeze model of retail, which must go down as one of the great business innovations of all time, Wal-Mart is hardly known as a foresight-based player.
As Facebook continues to change and evolve (as this will hardly be the last platform change the site makes), marketers need to pay attention and evolve along with it.
It's hardly a surprise that Bruce Springsteen has joined The Gaslight Anthem on stage, just as it's hardly a surprise that footage of the collaboration depicts singer Brian Fallon looking as if his heart is about to explode in a trillion joyful pieces.
Dancing robots are cute but hardly as interesting or revolutionary as an iPad or Twitter.
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Most political solutions are hardly as simple as Perot's homespun rhetoric suggests.
The back nine, however, was hardly as smooth for the 28-year-old American.
While hardly as festive without the favored Japanese, some sections of fans stayed on their feet and danced to music and the beat of drums and horns.
Shortening the period of entitlement to unemployment benefit, for instance, would only bring it back to the position in 1985, hardly as radical a move as it first appears.
As hardly any of them do immunise their stock-option programmes (by buying equal and offsetting options), and were therefore exposed to rising share prices, their true profits, on a full-cost accounting measure, were only 37% of those published, according to Smithers.
For young adults below the age of 40 to 45 it should be free - although in reality this makes little difference as hardly any pay now because those with care needs at that age have often not had time to accrue savings or buy property.
But other dairy products, such as butter are still not as popular - people really hardly ever cook with it - and it's not used in Chinese cooking.
We hardly notice as the walls go up around what we can do on the Internet.
History shows that many great geostrategic turning points are hardly recognized as such at the time.
If you are not, it hardly rates as a once in a lifetime experience.
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That should hardly come as a surprise because joint stewardships are all too often a recipe for chaos.
It can hardly come as a surprise that Barack Obama, Harvard Law Class of '91, is popular with lawyers.
His place in the curriculum is established, but he is hardly popular as a subject of teaching or scholarship.
In the grand scheme of things it hardly qualifies as a stadium anthem.
It hardly comes as a surprise that she decided to switch from chemistry to the study of animal communication.
Both Mr Bush's pitches to the public are open to debate, but they hardly count as electoral smoke and mirrors.
Even then, one drop and, while the phone might still work, the case will hardly be as cool as it was.
This hardly passes as new insight and does not offer much in the way of vision or direction for Western policymakers.
This planet appears to be small and rocky, a bit like Earth, but hardly, as NPR's Richard Harris reports, a vacation destination.
The dangers hardly showed as a blip on their elaborate risk charts.
That should hardly come as news given the number of investors falling all over themselves to back The Airbnb of office space!
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The first anonymous leak that Nintendo is working to craft the biggest most amazing Zelda game ever for the Wii U hardly comes as a surprise.
While investment banking income at HSBC fell, this was hardly felt as personal and corporate loans stabilized and the write-downs were much less severe this time around.
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