Lakshmi tell me that how ever hard she washes when she gets home she is always unclean in the minds of local people.

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No one should ever forget how hard it is to find success when life itself seems a joyless chore to be endured.

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"I don't think they've ever been made to understand how hard professional football is, " said Roeder.

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Moreover, it is hard to see how Turkey can ever join the EU without a settlement in Cyprus, since it would first have to recognise the Greek-Cypriot government and abandon the Turkish-Cypriots.

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But it is hard to see how it can keep track of the ever-growing traffic that passes through or leaves big corporate IT systems, for instance through a simple memory stick (which plugs into a PC and can hold the equivalent of dozens of feature-length films).

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With such suspicions to the fore of his thinking, it is hard to see how a deal based necessarily on mutual trust could ever be struck.

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But unless the system makes some effort to distinguish between the two, it is hard to see how the grip of the moral-hazard dilemma can ever be loosened.

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Getting video on a Portable Media Center is a fairly complicated task, but not because it's all that hard, it's just because no one has ever shown folks how.

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