Either way, it's a hard time to be in the luxury brand business.
But if price is the only reason, then you might not ever buy one, 'cause at this point it's hard to imagine a time when HDTVs will stop dropping in price almost 50% every 18 months.
Just a short ride from the French Quarter, in historic neighborhoods such as Treme and the Ninth Ward, it's not hard to find a virtual time capsule from the days when Katrina roared ashore.
"It's not hard work, but it can take time to complete a shift, " says Ms. Jackson, 27, using the app's lingo for a set task.
"The consumer will have a very, very hard time figuring out if it's pole caught, " at a grocery store or restaurant.
It's only a matter of time before hard work turns all that around and the losses become draws and draws become wins.
With analysts speculating that Apple could roll out everything from a slim laptop sporting lightweight flash memory to a new touchscreen tablet to a second-generation iPhone, it's possible Jobs wants time to give Apple's new products a hard sell.
It's hard for many of us to remember a time before we owned an HDTV, so we forget why we didn't buy one sooner.
Anytime you use unconventional conventions to tell a story, particularly at a time when pop culture is so self-reflective and it's difficult to find a unique voice, I think you are going to have a hard time selling it to people.
It's always hard to pick a winner, and I'm sure it'll be harder than ever this time around.
"It's really hard, you know there are lots of people in there crying now, it's such a sad time, " he said.
That's made it particularly hard for potential first-time buyers to get a mortgage.
Let's be serious for a second: just because we now have a hard date for the analog cutoff, does that mean it's time to panic?
"Society" produces books and movies like "I Don't Know How She Does It" narratives that tell women that it's impossible to be a competent mother and a hard-charging executive at the same time.
Luckily, I'm on a teaching scholarship, so I don't have to pay, but I just wanted the high-school seniors out there to know that it's even tough for those of getting advanced degrees, that we have a very hard time getting into programs sometimes.
But with the governor popular and the public more content and optimistic, it will be hard for any Democratic nominee to convince voters that it's time for a change.
"At a time like this, when people are grieving, I think it's hard to keep a clear mind on anything, " Steenkamp said.
However, after following patients for a longer period of time, Provenge did seem to extend survival "It's hard to fake that, " Petrylak said.
And it's hard because you get in the middle of a project--and this is our busy time because of so many researchers coming up to do global climate research.
There was a time when it was hard to enter a NYC taxicab or men's room, or to open a mailbox to mail a letter, without confronting a sticker hawking Henry's latest effort.
No one pays until it's time to file electronically, print out a return, or download the data to a hard drive.
Other regular pilgrims to Omaha say the meeting's dirty little secret is that, with a little planning, it is not that hard to get microphone time.
For Loo, who has not had any depressive episodes since Becky was a newborn, the hard lesson was that it's OK to not be in control all the time.
We have a laugh, we have a crack but when it's time to get down to business we get down and train hard -and that's all down to Rob.
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It was a hard time for Tan, too, who had borrowed heavily to fund the group's expansion.
But even Castlereagh, who ran Britain's foreign policy when it beat Napoleon, and shaped the post-Napoleon Concert of Europe, had a hard time getting things to go the way he wanted.
"I know it's hard to come back from, but I'm on it a lot earlier than I was last time, " said Noah, who missed 18 games with plantar fasciitis during the 2009-10 season.
"It's a hard thing for me to admit but I was certainly not in control of my emotions at the time and acted irresponsibly and irrationally, " wrote Stuart in his apology, adding "but that's not an excuse for my behaviour".
"They carry a mantra in a time and place where it's no longer valid, " says Winton, a die-hard capitalist.
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