The firm had been tolerant at first, but it had not been so easy, dealing with her mother's death just as an important case was about to go to trial.

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It was no easy feat and required dealing with exceedingly complex back-end systems, as well as many handsets.

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But, surprisingly, getting the economy to improve is the easy bit, compared to dealing with some of the social changes.

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"There's no easy way to do this when you're dealing with peoples' homes, " Mr. Walaker said.

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King recently told the Los Angeles Times that while he had come to terms with his broader legacy, dealing with the past had not been easy.

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Meanwhile, in Europe, the French presidential election may make it more difficult to make further progress on dealing with the debt crisis (not an easy matter at the best of times).

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And although it has convincingly shown itself able to confound the efforts of retailers to avoid easy and direct price comparisons, it has a harder time dealing with what their suppliers do.

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First, we must find new ways of tackling poverty and inequality, and that means dealing with the fact that life on welfare benefits is not easy.

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However, the Prime Minister's arm's length attitude to managing Northern Ireland isn't likely to change, and Ms Villiers will soon discover that when it comes to juggling issues like parades or dealing with the past, it's hard to keep all sides happy and easy to tread on someone's toe.

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