The result blends a vivid account of daily life, fluid and unsettling, in a modern British town with powerful allegorical reflections on the connections between past and present, time and space, and high culture and the hard scrabble world that sustains it.
Australian and American universities, particularly private ones, are pushing their courses in the developing world hard.
George Bush senior proved his manhood by making a fortune in the hard-scrabble world of west Texas.
But they should be thinking hard about the world, for its markets have been thinking, sceptically, about them.
The EIA report has added fuel to that fire, as it will be hard for the world to ignore a fuel resource of this size.
The harsh, explosive consonants and the action-focused, verb-heavy monosyllables instantly immerse us in the hard, violent world of the goblins, who take pleasure in acts of cruelty.
Keynes saw the world learn that lesson the hard way in the years after World War I.
Hard drives around the world do the work of storing and routing music, text and graphics.
Before you accuse of me of eschewing cold hard reality for a world view through rose-colored glasses, hear me out.
Daydenko said he was warned for not playing hard enough against the world number 102 by the chair umpire on Thursday.
While the communications people operate almost exclusively in the world of perceptions, the field people operate in the world of hard data.
It is hard to imagine a world in which the market for U.S. Treasury bonds is not deep and liquid, however.
In the middle of the barren desert, Dubai has built one of the most impressive balance sheets of hard assets in the world.
The new G-DRIVE slim leverages Hitachi GST's rugged, 7mm Travelstar(TM) Z5K320 drive, making it the thinnest, 2.5-inch external hard drive in the world.
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Many of us look back at the 1970s and find it hard to imagine a world with just 3 or 4 national television networks.
As in the 1930s, there is an exhausted search for the quiet life and an unwillingness to face the hard truths of the world.
Psychological research affirms that we are all partial prisoners of our own preferences and have a hard time seeing the world from a different perspective.
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Its provincial hotels, like Hilton's or those of lesser groups, such as Jarvis, were never too hard-hit by world events, though foot-and-mouth disease hurt them in 2001.
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Supply chain is a biggie in the world of hard.
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The Philippines dropped all charges against Onel de Guzman , a 24-year-old computer school dropout suspected of releasing the "I Love You" virus that cost billions of dollars worth of damage when it deleted hard drives around the world in May.
We cannot hope to influence and create change in the world around us, until we have taken on the hard work of creating change in the world within us.
But it is often hard, in a complex world, to distinguish between the two.
If it comes easy to the Garys of the world, how hard can it be?
Like the rest of the economy, the independent film world got hit hard by the global crisis.
Some find it hard to believe that the world's largest democracy is taking such a tough stance.
Even so, it is an approach that the business world has found hard to come to terms with.
Seagate is a world leader in hard disk drives and storage solutions.
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The devaluation of the major currencies is also a bullish underlying factor for hard assets in the investment world, including gold and silver.
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United Nations staff are working hard every day around the world to live up to the trust that has been placed in them.
LHC's underground ring will spew out petabytes (billions of megabytes) of data per second enough to fill all the hard-drives in the world within days.
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