In an almost evenly divided Senate, that could be a hard number to reach.
In November 2001 Roberts had recommended printing toll-free customer hotline numbers on soda cups and sending mystery shoppers to restaurants to conduct anonymous reviews of service using a hard-number scoring system.
We really do face a hard limit on the number of atoms available to us.
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Another notable feature is the unique, hard-coded ID number Intel assigns to each chip.
The number of hard-core takers remains stable, too, although casual consumption has been declining since the mid-1980s.
The difference is partly thanks to lower inflation on the Continent and a higher number of hard discounters like Germany's Aldi and Lidl.
But George Osborne has two massive advantages in trying to explain away this bad news which are hard for his opposite number to match.
Faced with drastic cuts in the military budget, commanders have been working hard to reduce the number of personnel who are assigned to these missions.
Huaqi claims that Aigo is China's biggest-selling make of MP3 player, as well as the leader in mobile storage (memory sticks and portable hard drives) and number four or five in digital cameras.
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Daydenko said he was warned for not playing hard enough against the world number 102 by the chair umpire on Thursday.
Hard Candy Cases is the number one iPhone case seller on Amazon.com.
The force said they had worked hard to promote the new number.
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The answer takes a lot of high-end number crunching and hard-won wisdom.
Farmers were having a hard time, because the number of farms quadrupled between 1850 and 1900, and total cultivated acreage nearly tripled to more than 840 million acres.
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If you look at hard data, like the number of patents filed in the US patent office, you will find over the last 20 years an exponential curve.
In this case, it would not have been so hard because it includes a number of possible lines of inquiry - not least whether or not Savile had changed his phone number.
Tim Mahoney: So, it's often hard to get at a number, but I'd say it's somewhere around 7% to 9% based on guys like Rosenblatt who do the studies in this space.
This whole mobile OS thing is likely to shake out much like Windows vs. the world (Unix, DOS, OSX, Linux, etc.) With one dominating and the others relegated to a small number of die hard fans.
Industrial and Commercial took a hit in the first and second quarter of 2012 as investors feared a hard landing and questioned a number of fiscal and monetary policies designed to curb inflation and ease up on real estate lending.
U.N. officials privately acknowledge this is a big number that may be hard to fill.
Qian Hu reaches out just as hard to investors, winning a number of awards for financial transparency.
Following police searches of the vicarage in Locking, officers seized a number of computers and hard drives.
The number of users is hard to calculate, since the software is free and many engineers install it without telling their superiors.
The extent of Chinese offshore real estate holdings is hard to track, given the number of jurisdictions involved and the desire for discretion.
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Insurance is hard to come by: The number of insurers willing to insure leasing outfits in New York has dwindled from 22 in 1997 to 3 today.
"North Wales Police are really trying hard to accommodate admittedly a small number of BME people in the area but people who need that confidence building up again".
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With these two mergers the total number of companies manufacturing hard disk drives (HDDs) will decline from five to three, with Toshiba, Seagate and Western Digital as the surviving players.
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It's not hard to imagine that a sizeable number of people who either wanted that to be the case or feared that it might be the case, at polar opposites, got the impression the law was really on the ropes and might be disappearing soon.
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