In developed economies a hard landing implies negative growth, but not in China, where growth has averaged 9% over the past two decades.
Both last Friday and yesterday, stocks have rallied in the morning but pulled back hard to finished in negative territory.
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While the ISM Manufacturing Index has been expanding for seventeen straight months now, the gain in December plus the impressive numbers from the New Orders and Inventories components made it hard to be overly negative on the outlook for the economy.
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It is hard to identify a single negative aspect of better growing conditions.
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It is hard for Germany to grow under negative conditions, says Stefan Schneider, an economist at Deutsche Bank.
Messrs Baland and Robinson acknowledge that negative bequests might be hard to implement, for both social and legal reasons.
Stress, anxiety and negative thoughts make it hard to get a good night's sleep, resulting in fatigue and lethargy.
The bottom line is it hard for me to become overly negative with the Smallcaps and Midcaps romping to three straight all-time highs last week.
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The more I analyzed my game, the more apparent it became that there was a negative correlation between how hard I swung and how far I hit the ball.
These women have double the risk of the aggressive and hard-to-treat hormone-negative breast cancers.
And millions of American households will remain caught in negative equity, making it hard for them to contemplate a move.
In 1989, the Bank of Japan stepped on the brakes very hard and brought money supply down to negative rates for a while.
In fact, any asset class with risk directly tied to developed economies has generally been forgotten in favor of hard assets or fixed income instruments with negative real rates but an abundance of safety.
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However, in July the Home Office dismissed calls by the home affairs committee to make it an offence as ministers said it would be hard to prove and could have a negative effect on victims.
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Regulatory costs have increased as well, as negative public sentiment will make it hard to come by permits.
Controls on access to dollars and negative real interest rates make it hard for the middle class to travel or save.
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Thus, if the CEO is getting mostly negative publicity, it is very hard to get positive coverage on the organization as a whole.
Though the Obamans certainly hit John McCain hard four years ago--running more negative ads than any campaign in history--what they intend to do to Romney is more savage.
Why is working hard and making a lot of money such a negative thing?
The negative implications for the United States are not hard to discern.
The negative spillover effects of the Pell Grant program are hard to measure but I think real.
This option also takes a negative hit against your credit rating, but not as hard as a foreclosure.
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"I don't feel together yet because negative things come in my mind and it's hard for me to remember sometimes, " Womack said.
But having said that, I want to say that, as I say, quantitative evidence of big, negative effects on employment or wages for blacks from immigration is hard to find.
The main argument used in favour of TPP in Japan has been defined in negative terms: that without it, Japanese firms will be hard-pressed to compete with South Korean ones benefiting from their country's myriad free-trade deals of late.
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Equity markets were marginally negative as the Fed Chairman began to speak, and then fell hard.
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He added a negative side of Twitter was that conversations could be seen out of context and it was hard to express a point in the 140 character limit.
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But the scandals helped ruin Freed -- he was hurt by negative publicity -- while Clark divested himself of his music business interests and was praised as a hard-working young businessman, Covach says.
So instead of folding up his computer and going home like some of our more negative commenters had suggested, inventor, composer, and all around resilient guy Peter Green has been hard at work on the second version of his MacMini Portable.
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