Professor ELIOT COHEN (Strategic Studies, School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University): It's very hard to make a clear-cut judgment about winning and losing.
They would be prohibited from spending the money on "luxury" goods such as Sky TV, cigarettes and alcohol - items which "hard-working families" have to cut back on when money is tight.
Recipients would be prohibited from spending the money on "luxury" goods such as Sky TV, cigarettes and alcohol - items which "hard-working families" have to cut back on when money is tight.
COSCO's new management will have to work hard to cut costs in its 600-strong fleet.
But some in the industry warned that if they clamp down too hard, they'll cut lower-income people off from homeownership with good lenders.
The device is also made out of 65% recycled plastics, and comes with a 0-watt hard switch that lets you cut power completely off from the monitor for zero power consumption.
The winding streets of Paris' northeast have been the home to bars, restaurants and guinguettes - open air dancehalls - since the early 19th Century, when Belleville and the neighbouring village of Menilmontant sat just outside the city tax limits, and drew the working classes for some cut-price going hard before going home to their workshops and factories.
The laser, which made a rapid-fire popping sound, cut cleanly and quickly through the outer shell of a hard-boiled egg.
More startling still is the sudden cut to hard, unglamorous gray-greens, and the sight of Freddie hacking the heads off cabbages in a California field.
Lower oil prices, sagging demand for energy and hard-to-get credit have caused many firms to cut back on renewables worldwide.
But R movies are a hard sell because they cut out so much of the movie-going population (teenagers).
But he had a hard time getting even a watered-down version of his tax cut through Congress, in spite of the fact that both houses are controlled by his Republican party.
But it's hard -- no, impossible -- to believe that Congress will cut spending next year on any of these programs from their new, higher levels.
Ostensibly, that is why Mr Wuffli was replaced by Marcel Rohner, the new boss, though it is not clear whether the 42-year-old former private banker and risk manager has the hard edge to cut it in investment banking.
Membership in the euro area leaves the country monetarily at the mercy of the ECB, which seems determined to maintain a hard line on inflation, and thus to resist calls for an interest-rate cut.
But climbing rates and uncertainty cut the other direction, and this year-end is especially hard to handicap.
The stock of CONMED took a hard beating earlier this month, after the company took a significant cut to fourth-quarter and 2009 sales and earnings guidance, due to a stronger dollar and reductions in hospital spending.
Clean-cut and calculating, Smith was the sort of ambitious financier who worked hard, did his homework, and cheated, too.
He said his ex-boss was hard to read and hard to please, prone to rages and quick to cut down his staff if he didn't like their ideas.
The Penguins started their comeback and cut the deficit in half when Iginla deflected in Kris Letang's hard one-timer, off a pass from Crosby, past Nabokov on Pittsburgh's only shot of the two-man advantage.
Most Americans say they want a cut in the rate of immigration, but current labour-market demand makes this hard to insist on.
"We've gotten out of some loss-making lines but in Japan relations with customers are wet, so it's hard to cut them off, " says Kobori.
So in terms of measures that are helping fuel economic activity and growth, he fought very hard for and achieved, as part of the tax cut compromise in December, extension of uninsurance -- unemployed benefits -- unemployment benefits and obviously the middle-class tax cut, as well as the payroll tax cut -- the payroll tax holiday.
One reason why it is hard to design and teach such courses is that they cut across the insistence by top American universities that liberal-arts education and professional education should be kept separate, taught in different schools.
Mr Jospin came to power last June on a hard-left, Euro-hesitant programme promising the creation of 350, 000 public-sector jobs, a cut in the working week from 39 to 35 hours without loss of pay, big increases in wages and social benefits, a halt to privatisation, a rise in the wealth tax, a rejection of the single currency's stability pact and so on.
The administration is also pressing hard to end subsidies for private health insurers that offer Medicare plans, and to cut banks out of the student-loan industry.
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