This rebelliousness makes France, like its football team, particularly hard to govern.
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Just like its competitors, Tower Records is having a hard time selling music at its stores.
"Like its predecessor... it is hard to think of anything in contemporary fiction quite like it, " he added.
That has hit exporters like British Steel particularly hard: most of its plants are in Britain, but much of its sales are in overseas markets.
Whatever you think of Mr Osborne's fiscal strategy, most economists would agree that Britain, like Spain and the others, still has its hard work to come.
But Stuart Hogarth says, as they won't get repeat business from their customers, its hard to see how companies like 23andme, deCODEme and Navigenics can make money, unless they market the information they collect to the drugs industry.
Looks like Dell's stepped onto its own toes real hard with the Streak's Android 2.1 update -- O2 just confirmed to us that due to some "feedback from users, " it's decided to suspend said download while Dell gets cranking on a revised software release over the next two or three weeks.
It has been hard to say because this government, like its predecessor in its more coherent moments, has taken a pragmatic position.
One clever feature is the ability of the iPod to act like any other small portable hard drive, which at its very essence it is.
In an age when capital is plentiful from private sources and new donors like China, how will the Bank continue to be relevant to its hard window and newly-graduated clients?
The administration would like to restore its ties with Turkey and Russia, but may find it hard going.
While the dot-com meltdown hit RLX hard, its blades are getting popular with research outfits like Los Alamos National Laboratory.
And it's freakishly hard to pull off in a sawmill like New York, which strips apart its sports icons from the outside in, questioning first the performance, then the commitment, and then the character, almost reveling as it spits out the bones.
Worcestershire is one of the areas where the BNP has decided to concentrate its efforts, so attention will inevitably focus on towns like Redditch and Bromsgrove that have been hard hit by job losses during the recession, especially in manufacturing industries.
The concept had been deemed too hard to control: the rover would swing like a pendulum as it flew, and its radar was too inaccurate to find safe anchorage.
The auto sector was hit hard in the downturn, but as it comes off of its bottom, companies like DealerTrack, which deals with improving the efficiency of getting credit for car sales, will benefit, McPherson said.
The problems created by proprietary formats, and the ways customers can be locked-in to one supplier even when they would like to move, is the reason the European Commission is pushing Microsoft hard to provide details of its protocols and interfaces to its competitors.
While such numbers make the eyes spin like, well, washing machines, some people still find it hard to consider laundering as a problem in its own right.
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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So, in future, without Microsoft and Apple (and Amazon, another innovative company that has never wasted its time in Las Vegas), it's hard to avoid concluding that CES will -- like Best Buy - gradually but inevitably go out of business.
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