But Gerry Keim, a management professor at Arizona State University, isn't quite so harsh.
The government auctioned contracts to upgrade four airports, but on terms so harsh that improvements may be slow.
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There is a reason the weather is so harsh this winter, and a big part of that is Kamchatka.
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It's not surprising that creative performers bristle at being labeled, even if being accused of working clean doesn't sound so harsh.
But it would also spur a fresh round of deposit flight from banks, worsening the liquidity shortage that has made the recession so harsh.
Yet, the terms of the euro group are so harsh, that the government of Cyprus could not raise the money without some haircut on the insured deposits.
But what really worries me is if the cuts are so harsh that they suddenly destroy family budgets, meaning people won't be able to keep up mortgage payments.
Stung by the reaction of the public, and their own moral outrage at GOP Gov. Jan Brewer and her allies for engaging in so harsh a budget solution, Democratic members of the Arizona legislature appealed to the governor to call a special session of the legislature to reinstate the medical transplant program.
Though many activists were unhappy with Obama for failing to tackle the issue in his first term, he won 71% of the Latino vote in November against Republican challenger Mitt Romney -- who had said he would drive undocumented workers to "self-deportation" by making conditions so harsh for them that they left the United States.
The new generation of planes are significantly cheaper to run than those currently flying, so a harsh economic climate may in fact encourage airlines to press on with renewing their fleets.
What this means is rather than trying to catch every cheater you randomly sample for cheating and if you find incontrovertible proof then you impose a punishment so viciously harsh that fear of it deters all possible cheaters.
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But her judgments are so sweeping and harsh that the fair-minded reader may flinch a bit.
For the Afghan troops the battlefield has been a harsh taskmaster so far this year.
"The Earth's hot deserts -- such as the Sahara, the Gobi, the Sonoran and the Lut -- are climatically harsh and so remote that access for routine measurements and maintenance of a weather station is impractical, " said David Mildrexler, lead author of a recent study that used NASA satellites to detect the Earth's hottest surface temperatures.
And it does so without feeling even slightly harsh--smooth as glass around town, taut as a much sportier car at its limits.
The reviews performed so far have been particularly harsh, say attorneys.
Moreover, so many people have learned a harsh lesson regarding the fallacy of houses making great investments.
It was possibly slightly edited but not so much so as to detract from the harsh reality of this awful event.
"We are pleased that Mr. Stanford received the harsh sentence that he so justly deserved for destroying the lives of thousands of victims around the world, " Peter Morgenstern, a member of the Stanford Investors Committee, said in an email message.
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Also, many of the developments have deteriorated amid harsh Caribbean weather conditions, so restarting them would be expensive.
So what if Mr Putin is a bit harsh sometimes - that, he says, is a matter of style.
The Brazilian, already on a booking, did indeed raise a hand when defending the ball and he certainly made contact with Busquets' face as he did so, but a straight red card appeared a harsh decision.
Some experts think so as more employers enforce and emphasize safety to avoid harsh penalties, lawsuits and productivity losses.
His security detail has come in for harsh criticism for allowing the man to get so close to Mr Klaus.
For all the talk of harsh U.K. austerity, there has so far been little beyond tax rises and canceled infrastructure projects.
The automatic and deliberately harsh spending cuts have come because the politicians are so far apart they cannot agree to a sensible way of balancing the books.
Creating the chardonnay Gutlove is so proud of was not easy, especially in Japan's harsh climates.
Yet the Afghan air force has limited strength, so Nato air support is considered crucial, especially for operations in harsh terrain and mountainous areas, our correspondent says.
Built to withstand the habitually harsh environment of the Red Planet, Aerogel is also so chronically hydrophobic that the car should see service well after you and I have turned to dust and interesting memoirs.
But certainly the fact that the U.S. had spoken out so strongly against this and that the Iraq government had taken a very harsh position must have affected Turkey because they are sensitive to these things.
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