The possibility of a fiscal cliff -- which economists warn will hit the American economy hard -- was set in motion two years ago, as a way to force action on mounting government debt.
Business leaders are supposed to be tough, hard-driving visionaries who set a firm course for the company and then lead people in that direction with their charisma and force of personality, right?
In order for the Marine Corps to remain the Nation's preeminent expeditionary force, it needs to be versatile, fast-moving, and hard-hitting so it can avoid large, set-piece battles through prompt and vigorous action during the conflict?s incipient stages.
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Replay Networks and TiVo both offer appliances that record television programs on command, saving them on a hard drive in the set-top box.
In the first round, Nadal lost the first set against the hard-hitting Daniel Brands.
As he did in Wednesday's win over world No. 3 Andy Murray, Djokovic was forced to battle hard and he saved three set-points to prevent the match going to a decider.
NEC, which has a proprietary architecture different from the industry standard set by IBM, is hard-pressed by foreign makers - and Fujitsu.
When John Edwards decided to give up his Senate seat to run for vice president, it set the stage for a hard-fought race between Bowles and Burr.
But despite the pain, she brushed aside Zahlavova in the next set before holding on for a hard-fought victory.
Why not push digital music and video stored on a PC or set-top box with a hard drive to any TV or stereo system in the house?
Along with ridiculously high-capacity external hard drives, both Mac and Windows users have simple built-in software to make backup a set-it-and-forget-it affair.
The Friends: Complete Series Blu-ray box set is presented in highly collectible new packaging consisting of a lenticular box cover, a hard-cover book that holds 21 Blu-ray discs, plus a 32-page episode guide.
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Doherty points out that pay-TV subscribers also stand to benefit from lower energy use if they can swap their set-top boxes for devices without hard drives that connect to remote storage servers.
Schultz will buy Django, unchain him and eventually set him free if Django, using his hard-won knowledge of the countryside and its denizens, will become Schultz's deputy and help him find three particularly murderous, and potentially lucrative, brothers.
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We gave away some bad goals, from set-pieces too, even though we worked hard on that on Tuesday at training.
Today, cable systems have to provide costly set-top boxes equipped with high-capacity hard drives to every new customer that signs up for DVR service.
But the first country to send a missile, even a non-nuclear one, could trigger a tit-for-tat set of reprisals that both sides could find hard to stop.
But now, with the overall budget numbers set, the program-by-program review and hard detail work must begin.
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Faced with this untidy set of choices, a sensible philosophy would not make hard-and-fast judgments about what businesses belong together.
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Serena had made hard work of beating another Russian, Vera Dushevina, in a three-set opener on Monday, but appeared in command against world number 18 Petrova as she won the first set.
With so much of the set-up being new, Byrne admits it is hard to make predictions about what the team can achieve as he has no idea how the bike may develop.
It will connect to SonicBlue's ReplayTV set-top boxes, which can record TV programming to a hard drive.
The Argentine did not drop his service throughout the three-set match to deny the Swiss maestro a sixth title at the hard court tournament.
When Petrova took the upper hand, and the first set, fans erupted into applause with each of Oudin's hard-earned points and offered encouragement like "There we go!"
In the first quarter-final, Djokovic became the first player to take a set off unseeded Croatian Ancic in the tournament when he claimed the hard-fought opener on a tie-break.
"The SharePort Go II packs a powerful set of capabilities into a pocket-sized device that's hard to live without, " said Daniel Kelley, associate vice president of marketing, D-Link Systems, Inc.
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Pires pulled one back on 90 minutes to set up a tense finish, but the Hammers held on for a hard-fought victory.
" He added: "When we finally did some running we put in a few laps of wet set-up but with the track changing so much it is always hard to draw too many conclusions.
Pearson, speaking after his successor Paulo Sousa was sacked, with Sven-Goran Eriksson set to take over, was unhappy the club did not try hard to keep him.
You know, it's easy, after a hard day's work, to just put your kid in front of the TV set -- you're tired, don't want to fuss with them -- instead of reading to them, but that's a sacrifice we must joyfully accept.
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