Hard or soft, commodities have fuelled desire, greed and war since the days of Pharaoh.
"The real issue is whether we have a hard or soft landing, " says Hugh Johnson, chairman of money manager Johnson Illington Advisors.
Consultants also shall provide full disclosure of any payments they receive from money managers, in hard or soft dollars, for any services they provide, including but not limited to, performance measurement, business consulting and education.
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Unlike other major central banks, including the Bank of England and the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of Canada's six-member governing council makes its decisions by consensus rather than votes and present verdicts as a common decision, thereby avoiding being labelled hard or soft on policy.
Their new rear wing and new floor should make the car go quicker, but they do not have the track time at a race weekend to go through the thousands of combinations of ride heights and hard or soft suspension settings, versus high or low wing levels.
Nevertheless, hard landing or soft landing, China data added to concerns that Asian growth is slowing more sharply than had previously been feared.
The second was a tension between science and the humanities, or between hard and soft subjects.
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Like Magelli, many entrepreneurs don't think they can drive a hard bargain (or even a soft one) when raising money.
The only question now is whether we will see a soft or a hard landing.
All those pledges to remember, next time you check into a hotel, whether you like a soft pillow or a hard one: they have an impact.
The hard-won increase in the credibility of the select committee system during this Parliament could easily be squandered if the report is too hard, too soft, is fudged, or is seen to depart from the evidence.
She was only their temporary custodian, she said, a form and a face caught fleetingly by the movie camera or posing, in soft focus, behind the hard stones.
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The Reef could win on soft and hard ground, which Dancing Brave, Brigadier Gerard or Nijinsky did not prove.
Have you ever been playing around with molten metal salt, when you accidentally created hollow, soft-shelled particles that could one day increase hard disk storage or power future QLED displays?
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And the Commons hierarchy is clearly worried that the outcome could be a report which either by being too soft or by going beyond what the evidence justifies, damages the new and hard won credibility of the select committee system.
It turns out that those selenium "doughnuts" can be packed tightly onto a metal surface without touching, thanks to their soft shells, which could allow more bits to be packed onto a hard drive, or be used in quantum computers and next-gen displays.
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The hard corset significantly decreased lower-back or lumbar range of motion in all phases of the golf swing compared with the soft corset and no corset, the motion analysis showed.
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