Just as few could have predicted the dramatic growth spurt of East Asian economies 30 years ago, it is hard to forecast today how open, agriculturally-rich economies will continue to develop.
New York is such a different city today that it is hard sometimes to remember what it was like in the 1970s.
It is hard to believe because today, after a handful of early primaries, neither side has even identified a frontrunner.
But with an inexperienced new CEO, a badly botched new privacy policy, a marked decline in public trust and a looming EU antitrust investigation, it is hard to see Google dominating today's Web 3.0 world from the same unchallenged position as it once controlled the Web 2.0 economy.
And it wasn't easy to pay off these loans, but it sure wasn't as hard as it is for a lot of kids today.
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He is almost always right about what to do today, even if it is a hard choice.
With no traffic to speak of on their network today, it is very hard to arrive at a price that is fair to everyone.
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It is hard to pick up a financial publication today without reading scary headlines about hundreds of billions of dollars of coming municipal bond defaults forecast by people who never had a thought about this market just six months ago.
Against that background, it seems hard to believe how well Indonesia is doing today.
In today's bipolar market it is hard to buy anything, says Michelangelo Volpi, Cisco's chief dealmaker.
You have to realize how hard it is to turn your back on revenue today for the promise of revenue tomorrow.
But it is also hard to tell how much that is because of his acting, and how much because fathers today are no longer such heroes and infidelity is no longer quite so shocking.
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The fundamental problem is that it is hard for management to realize that their competitive advantages of today are unlikely to last, and if they wait to build the next generation advantage until the warning signs are loud and clear, they have little hope of recovering their former glory.
Yet even setting aside doubts about how far this is desirable (it is hard to believe growth in India or Brazil would have reached today's levels without foreign capital), the studies raise questions about whether capital controls are really the right response.
With today's sensitivities about data protection, it is hard for ministers to drop a line directly to Joe or Gemma congratulating them on their exam results and urging them to think about going to university.
And because we made those hard choices, our economy is in a different place today than it was just a year ago.
And that last part is absolutely essential, that part about really working hard in school, because an education has never been more important than it is today.
You have a lot more courage just by being here today, because I know, and many others know, how hard it is to relive these moments, because it brings everything back in stark, stark relief and stark detail.
And now, according to an article that appeared in the Washington Post today, the system has become a web so unwieldy it's hard to see if it is actually making us safer.
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