As you say by the rest of the scores, it's a very hard golf course and it seems to get progressively harder in some ways.
In the early years of his business, "everything was hard, of course, " he says.
Once we start something (or fail to start something), it's really hard to change course.
In between soft and hard, of course, lies a range of landings of various degrees of bumpiness.
It is hard, of course, to feel too sorry for the Fed's Alan Greenspan, who enjoyed rock-star-like levels of popularity in the late 1990s, when America happily handed him the credit for its long economic boom.
The lads have put in so much hard work over the course of the season and we've got our reward.
The cold hard truth is of course it has to do with the economy as it was in years past.
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The corporate chief simply pushes his "automatic flight mode" and the plane will glide nicely as the mass will work hard to set the course.
And when it surfaces, some people are quick to try to eliminate it because it sounds squishy, unbusiness-like, and, of course, hard to quantify and teach.
Since then I have presented a number of mainline BBC programmes, including Breakfast News, Songs of Praise, the early evening news programme Reporting Scotland (which I anchor in Glasgow twice a week), A Family of My Own and, of course, Hard Cash.
If "placental starving" is suspected, in some cases it might be better, later in pregnancy, to deliver the baby prematurely - but premature babies face other risks, and it is hard to judge which course of action is for the best.
Old reputations, of course, die hard--and Federated's was that of an unknown firm mired in one market niche with limited growth prospects.
These gestures won't remove the need for hard verbal bargaining, of course, but they can begin to defuse tense situations more easily.
Of course it's hard to imagine her feeling the same way, but maybe her kid sister might.
Taught to think in certain "pathways, " doctors may "anchor" on a diagnosis, and it can be hard to get them to change course.
Of course, it is hard to know whether fiscal rules stiffen finance ministers' spines or whether they are adopted by governments that already have the necessary political will.
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Urging the US not to abandon or drastically curtail its presence in Iraq, he warned that while the current course in Iraq was hard, the alternatives were "far worse".
And of course we are working very hard every day to advance a global economic recovery.
Which is, of course, at least as hard as predicting which way the wind is going to blow.
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Not all Open courses are equally hard, and sometimes a potentially difficult course is softened by rain and lack of wind.
Yes, of course, they had lobbied hard for WTO, so in this sense they are trying to have it both ways.
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