Yet if it came to it, deciding between the two should not be hard.
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With those low expectations, it should not be hard to portray a 3% revenue rise as great news.
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That should not be hard nearly a quarter of the world's ocean freight passes through the South China Sea.
But beating 4% over the next 25 years should not be too hard.
Apart from its debt and some operational problems at its Italian mobile business that should not be too hard to iron out, Telecom Italia is in reasonable shape.
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Eurozone finance ministers held a telephone conference Monday night, and concluded that small depositors should not be hit as hard as others.
But it should not -- those issues that are -- make a deal extremely hard to get and probably impossible should not be a part of a partial-year funding bill.
America should not be a place where someone willing to work hard for 40 hours a week cannot manage to break through the poverty line.
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If so, then it is hard to see why computers should not be recognised for good work as well.
If, on the other hand, you think that the IRS is falling down on the job and not picking on somebody it should, it can be hard to get standing.
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More than four decades ago, this nation stood up for the principle that after a lifetime of hard work, our seniors should not be left to struggle with a pile of medical bills in their later years.
The USMNT should still qualify: it would be sort of hard not to, given the fact that, most likely, 75% of the remaining six teams will do so.
But as hard as it may be, we should not, and cannot, give in to cynicism or despair.
While markets for things like carbon and water hold promise, they should not be oversold transaction costs are high and production is hard to measure.
Teams that are not aligned but know they should be find that first step to be hard.
The fact that certain transactions are hard to control does not mean that they should be made legal.
The reason is not theoretical (it being hard to understand why the one unelected branch should be supreme over the other two) but practical.
This reason is not clear, but recent reports by Jim Pettit at the National Review Online should be alarming hard-working Americans and economic development specialists across the country.
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Such a move by the Fed should be gold and commodity-market bullish, as it would not only make the returns on hard assets more appealing, but it would also likely put some downside price pressure on the U.S. dollar index, or at least limit its upside movement.
When it comes to negotiation, it would be hard to retreat from asking for those opt-outs, but he should not make too much of a failure to win. (There is precious little new social legislation in the pipeline, and Britain already has the right to opt out of most new judicial measures.) A reprieve for the City from the proposed financial rules would be a coup.
It is hard to lead effectively if people do not sense that you care so you should be mindful in 2013 to go out of your way to demonstrate this.
The objective, I'm told, is to encourage better financial planning as the new benefit, the Universal Credit, which will be paid monthly is phased in, with the aim of re-establishing the idea that benefits are a safety net for people who've fallen on hard times, and that the money paid out should be spent on essentials, not luxuries.
It's not too hard to figure out that oversight of those contracts has not kept pace with what it should be.
The principle is that children should be reached while they are still fairly pliable and before they begin to take drugs not just the hard stuff but alcohol, marijuana and tobacco.
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For a country that should be looking for friends, not enemies, in a world increasingly characterised by regional clubs and groupings, it is hard to think of a more foolish policy.
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