Economists Richard Murnane and Frank Levy argue that the new basics include both hard and soft skills.

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The country bans possession and consumption of both hard and soft drugs, except for limited medical purposes.

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In a sudden about-turn, Mexico's president, Vicente Fox, refused to promulgate a bill that would have legalised the possession of small quantities of drugs, both hard and soft.

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After all, the landscape has changed dramatically over the last decade, and the chair role is a legitimate job, requiring both hard and soft skills, as well as increasing amounts of time.

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They excel in both the hard stuff and the soft stuff of business.

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As Jerome Littlefield, an aspiring doctor whose debilitating sympathetic hypochondria reduces him to menial labor at a sanatorium, Lewis is both a flustered klutz who tries too hard and a soft-spoken, painfully sincere Everymensch.

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