The Eurozone governments were urged to promote growth and reject hard debt cut targets.
COSCO's new management will have to work hard to cut costs in its 600-strong fleet.
And since it is hard to cut nominal wage rates, price stability could put a floor beneath real wages.
"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.
Even so, they may be hard to cut.
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Biolase's Waterlase system uses a patented combination of water and lasers to precisely cut hard tissues (bone and teeth) and soft tissue (gums) with minimal damage to surrounding areas.
It is always easier to let an investigation languish or drift than to shut it down, and making the hard decision to cut one short frequently does not come with any immediate or obvious professional advantage.
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.
But R movies are a hard sell because they cut out so much of the movie-going population (teenagers).
Wohlin insists Jones had stopped using hard drugs and had cut back on his drinking at the time of his death.
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In the West real politics will return with a vengeance, as deficits are cut and hard choices have to be made.
"It's been hard because we have cut the budget massively and we may have to do the same next year, " he said.
When the company hit hard times, he cut his own salary first.
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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.
In August, Acting Chief Constable Shaun Sawyer said the loss of 700 officers may need to be reconsidered and reversed, and admitted the force may have "cut too hard and too fast".
She had dirty grey hair around a face cut from a hard wood with a blunt tool.
The cut greens are hard to wash, and you can't remove outer leaves as you can with a head of romaine.
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 prospect of even a handful of killers evading justice will make it hard for any government to cut the database back much more.
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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.
In the mirror, she looked sharp enough to cut something, hard fixed lines beside her mouth, her eyes too big, her cheekbones jutting like knuckles under her skin, up to her elbows in dirty work, cleaning toilets.
Using all sorts of data points related to fuel consumption, routes, and times of day companies can give their drivers more efficient routes and cut down on hard braking, hard acceleration, and idling, the three biggest wastes of fuel and contributors to CO2 emissions.
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With an election due in October, it will find it hard to raise taxes, or cut spending.
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.
Mr Bush and his team have been working hard to sell the huge tax cut as part of the president's plan to stimulate the faltering American economy.
The difficulty for the prime minister is that it will be hard to argue against an absolute cut in EU spending when he is making the case for the same kind of cuts at home.
Its borrowing binge in the past few years (India's overall fiscal deficit is approaching a tenth of GDP) has crowded out the private sector and made it hard for the central bank to cut interest rates.
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.
Largely because of the power of the unions, America's carmakers find it as hard as their European counterparts do to cut output and capacity to match changed circumstances.
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