"hard close" would prevent them from letting favored clients illegally profit off late orders.
The sea offers space, a view to a distant horizon, a physical perspective less oppressive than hard-edged close-up urban architecture.
The marketing department may be quick to snap back that sales is ignoring their leads or not trying hard enough to close them.
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It would would seem to be a hard door to close.
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"It's taken years of hard work and close collaboration among universities, national laboratories and private companies to get to this point, " said Pier Oddone, director of the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
It may be hard to see close up.
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And to see after all how the public will react with their vote to the illegal immigration issue, you know, especially the Republicans continue with this very hard strategy to close the border and to continue to fulfill the ideas of have a strong laws against illegals in any of the 50 states.
Strangely, it is hard to reconcile the close historical proximity of war with peace.
And with the single-make trye rule as well, it is close, hard racing, and all down to talent.
In Israel, a lawmaker close to hard-line Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stopped short of confirming involvement in the strike.
Sometimes you might have to work so annoyingly hard, like one close friend of mine did, that you refuse to leave.
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The 10-place grid penalty in China was very difficult as it's a hard track to get close to people and overtake so, in many ways, I knew that was going to hurt us.
No matter how hard I tried to get close to her, I felt like a distant relative.
They point out that, in some respects, Hispanics seem natural conservatives: religious, hard-working and with close family ties.
It was a little hard to follow, but upon close inspection, it was also brutally fair.
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His bosses come down hard: they want him to close the case without any political fallout.
Vernon saved the Dons' blushes in the 78th minute, sliding in from close range for a hard-fought win.
It's had a lot of emotional games, a lot of close, tough, hard battles right down to the end.
All courses will have close ties with the hard school of real life.
Because it has a 6-gigabyte hard drive, most music collectors would be hard-pressed to even come close to exhausting the machine's capacity.
Ms. TAYLOR: Well, I think that he's going to have to take a hard look at her given how close the contest was depending upon how you slice the numbers.
Additionally most financial institutions have robust alert options that will notify you via text or email of activity in your account so you can keep a close eye on your hard earned dollars.
So much so that it is hard to imagine spending cuts sufficient to close the gap.
Failure is hard "when you work in a close-knit group, because people influence each other a lot, " says Ms. Edwards, a Tallahassee, Fla.
Indeed, the Bush-Enron connections are so close, it's hard to tell whether Enron is the house that Bush built or Bush is the house that Enron built.
The thinking behind his three centre-back formation is that Brazil press opponents back, with the strikers working hard to regain possession of the ball close to the opposing goal.
There's also the reality of living in close quarters with 220 die-hard New Yorkers who've seen it all.
Looking at the raw numbers and what we know about the two companies, it seems hard to believe that Facebook can come even close to catching Google in revenues.
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