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Apart from its debt and some operational problems at its Italian mobile business that should not be too hard to iron out, Telecom Italia is in reasonable shape.
ECONOMIST: Italy��s biggest telecoms firm faces an uncertain future
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After two hours of coding at work, the trapezius muscles connecting his neck to his shoulders feel as hard as cast iron.
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China re-exports a lot of what it imports, turning hard drives into iPods and iron ore into steel.
ECONOMIST: Global rebalancing
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It is hard to imagine the "Iron Lady" stomaching the kind of compromises her successors at Number Ten made in the pursuit of peace.
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In theory, making elements up to iron should not be hard.
ECONOMIST: Sir Fred Hoyle
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Metal-forming technologies are used to shape hard industrial metals like steel, iron and aluminum into the components that are needed to make everything from computers and iPads to cars and trucks.
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She said Iron Maiden's sheer hard work has also won them fans.
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It would take cold, hard steel, made from hot molten iron.
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Given Russia's new pluralism, it is hard to imagine the Kremlin regaining the iron control it had in the Soviet era, even if it wanted to.
ECONOMIST: A survey of Russia
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Iron Man 2 was a bit hard to watch.
FORBES: Connect
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Such a deal would anyway be hard to achieve: there must be cast-iron guarantees that Iran would not gain access to dangerous enrichment skills through a joint venture with Russia.
ECONOMIST: Will Russia help, or just get in the way?
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Navratilova was the hard-muscled, jarringly-accented lesbian who emerged from behind the Iron Curtain.
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Of course, they didn't just use any old off the shelf magnet, instead designing custom neodymium iron-boron models that produce just the right magnetic field necessary to make that hard drive completely useless.
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