That is going to make it hard for a start-up CEO to persuade a venture capitalist that he is going to get in on the next big thing.
It is always hard to fund a start-up, but Dr Rodriguez said it was particularly difficult to get investors to buy into the idea of a money-making investment in Africa.
It strains credulity that ascendant ex-Soviet hard-liners will be more amenable to eliminating such manufacturing assets should they start to turn a profit.
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By some estimates, it may take ten years, and tens of billions of dollars, before hard-hit areas like the Jersey Shore start to resemble their pre-Sandy outlines.
The hard-fought victory continues the promising start the Tyneside club have made to the campaign after their season-opening draw at Manchester United.
Western diplomats are also working hard behind the scenes to kick-start the Kosovo-Serbia talks that Mrs Clinton has urged.
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But the hobbled financial system will make it hard for cash-hungry start-ups to get financing, so innovation will suffer.
The industry is hitting the promotional pedal hard this year in an attempt to jump-start online sales.
On February 9th, it told the country's banks to start selling all their hard-currency inflows to the central bank and the state petrol-importing monopoly, at the official rate.
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And it's going to be really hard to get into that home, which has long-term repercussions when you start talking about building wealth.
Daniel Heery, who runs a community-based fibre network in Alston, Cumbria, believes that the figure of 10% properties that remain hard-to-reach in Cornwall will be replicated around the country when BDUK projects start to kick in.
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For the last few years, Twitter has mainly been a tool for tech insiders and news junkies, just as CNN initially appealed primarily to a hard-core, but limited audience of news obsessives until the start of the Gulf War, when everyone tuned in for news on the war as it broke.
"The run-in looks quite hard so we know we will have to have a good start and do our best to get early points on the board, " he told the club website.
In the Jerusalem speech, Romney defended a hard-line stance on Iran as a deterrent to war, rather than a desire to start one.
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If Chinese start-ups are likely to be crushed, finance will be hard to come by.
In addition, IBM announced that in May it will start supplying in volume two new 20G-byte and 30G-byte Travelstar hard drives to major notebook vendors, including Compaq, Dell, Gateway and the IBM Personal Systems Group.
"In the beginning I was trying to shoot as hard as I could, and I was making a lot of mistakes -- so I knew I had to start putting the ball back in the court more, " Li told the WTA Tour's official website.
It is not hard to see demand growth being dragged down at the start of next year by a planned rise in value-added tax in Germany and budgetary tightening in Italy.
It is not hard to conjure up a scenario where agreements on, say, tax harmonisation or exchange-rate policy within the euro group start raising questions about the full access of non-euro members to the single market.
In fact, when pushed to identify women who have attempted the search fund model, leaders in the niche investment community are hard-pressed to name anyone other than Karen Moriarty, CEO of Carillon Assisted Living, the company she decided to start herself rather than acquire another through her search fund.
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