Ian Clark, the assistant restaurant manager, offers anywhere between 25 and 35 cheeses divided into four categories (hard, blue, soft and goat) regardless of their nationality.
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Several hundred invited guests, all wearing the blue hard hats, took construction elevators up to a top floor to stare out over the turquoise water, sip similarly colored cocktails and hear a speech or five.
It goes something like this (cue the Eminem music): hard-scrapple, blue-collar city, devastated by the recession, pulls together to be lifted up by their baseball team.
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And the word is, as I said, the Blue Dogs started right after the 1994 election, where there was a massive party change in Washington, and the Blue Dogs started to choke so hard on where the national party was going that they turned blue.
The hard seats of ying zuo were no longer hard, upholstered now with blue covers.
The blue chips fell hard after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave few clues that the Fed would take imminent steps to support the U.S. economy in testimony before the Senate Banking Committee.
When all you have are ideas and no actual business, it's hard to analyze and quantify blue-sky--one reason why Internet companies, be they in North America, seem a little shy of pursuing the profit ideal.
Opposing coaches have complained that the Broncos' all-blue uniforms make it difficult to prepare for games at Boise because it's hard to differentiate Broncos' players against the blue backdrop.
Assange, in the terminal, carried a threadbare blue backpack that contained hard drives, phone cards, and multiple cell phones.
Richards uncorked a shot from the blue line that bounced hard off the end boards and clicked off Ellis' right skate and into his own net.
It requires a blue-chip resume, hard work, aggressive follow-through, and most importantly, some luck.
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"They're a different team without Derrick Rose obviously, but this is a blue collar team, a hard-working team and they rely really on their defense, " Johnson said.
Then, wearing hard hats and carrying red, white and blue carnations, they stand for 15 to 20 minutes at a platform at the foot of the ruins.
In Michigan and Ohio, he may also prove that he has another advantage over Mr Romney: an appeal to blue-collar workers that is hard for a member of the 1% to match.
If not for the neon blue signage outside, BaoHaus would be hard to find.
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Such measures, though welcome, have meant that all but the bluest of blue-chip companies now find credit hard to come by.
Wearing a dark blue suit and black-and-blue tie, he often spoke so quietly he was hard to hear.
In looking at a sample of American blue chips that often come up dividend screens, it is hard to make such a case.
Angular and athletic with a menacing pout and searing blue eyes, the French actor has made his name playing hard-edged, morally compromised, often unlikeable characters.
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It is hard to overstate how revolutionary that rope and Andon board were for the auto industry: Allowing a mere blue-collar worker to stop the line would have been heresy in Detroit a few decades ago, as managers were more concerned about keeping up volume than quality.
The depleted Blue Jays were missing their two best hitters, Edwin Encarnacion and Jose Bautista, and so it is hard to measure how Pettitte would fare against the best American League lineups.
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