The business aviation community banded together to assist, providing supplies and aid areas left hard to reach by power and road outages.
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The new pontiff has walked a fine line politically in a country that has often been sharply divided between hard left and hard right.
This would raise the federal share of spending to 25% after years of decline, which left the hard-pressed and increasingly grumpy provincial governments to pick up the bill.
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But, as is often the case in such difficult matters, Congress left the hard work to the regulators: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was told to write rules describing exactly what steps developers had to take to gain this valuable liability protection.
"I think it's paranoia between libertarians and the hard left that is unjustified, " Graham said.
So Mr Zapatero may have to look elsewhere, to the hard left or the Catalan nationalists, for backing.
Vigorous anti-monarchism was associated with the hard left, and has atrophied with it.
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When he challenged Mr Ortega, whose politics remain those of the hard left, he was kicked out of the party.
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By the end of the feast, there were only two items left: the hard round pretzels and the hard square biscuits.
He resisted that tendency, and was often criticized by the hard left.
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His left foot pressed hard on a fine-grained surface at 10:56 p.m.
But his attempts to push this policy agenda were drowned out by his battles with the hard left and what were seen as his ineffective and stumbling performances on television and in the Commons.
Apart from the two biggest parties in the incumbent coalition (which will govern until a new team is formed), the other winners were the Green Left (who doubled their votes to 7%) and the hard-left Socialist Party.
But the "hard left" remained a problem and its champion Tony Benn - regarded by Mr Kinnock's supporters as a "clear liability to the new model Labour Party" - was seeking the Labour nomination for the Chesterfield by-election.
Instead Obama got 1.3% economic growth rates, the economy teetering on the edge of a double dip, an unemployment rate over 9%, and shrill claims from the hard left that mere near trillion dollar deficits simply are not enough.
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As long as they do, banks should be left to compete as hard as they can.
And the hard-left junior partner is deeply uncomfortable with the austerity it is being asked to endorse.
Horn said he'd be a hard worker and then, to prove his intensity, hit the wall so hard it left a dent.
This is not the only parallel with the rise of Syriza, the hard-left party in Greece that opposes that country's bail-out programme.
Syriza, an opposition hard-left alliance, stands every chance of gaining support.
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Latin America has a few asset-seizing hard-left governments, notably Argentina and Venezuela, but inequality has also fallen in countries following a more orthodox economic course, such as Chile and Colombia.
Under the guidance of charismatic coach Jurgen Klopp, whose popularity has seen a pop song written about him, Dortmund's run to the final has left even the most hard-hearted of seasoned aficionados willing on the men in yellow and black.
The bad news is that the main beneficiary of public disillusionment is Alexis Tsipras, leader of the intransigent hard-left Syriza, who claims to "listen to the people" while rejecting the kind of unity government that more than 70% of Greeks said they wanted.
Mr Jospin came to power last June on a hard-left, Euro-hesitant programme promising the creation of 350, 000 public-sector jobs, a cut in the working week from 39 to 35 hours without loss of pay, big increases in wages and social benefits, a halt to privatisation, a rise in the wealth tax, a rejection of the single currency's stability pact and so on.
Were an election held now his centre-left government would find it hard to squeeze back into power.
But it combines sensible ideas from the political right (greater personal responsibility for financing unemployment) and left (more help for hard-hit workers).
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