Despite the high share of Americans who think start being an entrepreneur is hard, Americans still think it is easier than people from most countries.
But Mr Putin needs to start, if only because it is hard to see how new powers for Russia's troops and law-enforcement agencies will succeed in ending the war in Chechnya, where any supposed limits on their old powers in the past were anyway ignored.
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That is going to make it hard for a start-up CEO to persuade a venture capitalist that he is going to get in on the next big thing.
As cancer drug prices continue to soar, he says doctors and patients need to start making hard choices about what society is willing to pay for.
"This kid is going to have a hard enough life if he really is transsexual, why start fighting battles now, when he should just be blissfully ignorant"?
Only recently has this wrongheaded thinking started to change, and the firestorm of controversy it has stirred up is indicative of just how hard it is to get folks to stop thinking bullets and start thinking bodies.
In fact, there are so many conclusions one can draw from this paper, it is hard to know where to start.
Take a look at most of the recent cultural indicators, and it is hard to know where to start with the good news.
The problems with private charity for all with government aid for none are so many, that it is hard to know where to start.
It is always hard to fund a start-up, but Dr Rodriguez said it was particularly difficult to get investors to buy into the idea of a money-making investment in Africa.
His administration sent muddled signals at the start of Kenya's current crisis but is now working hard to talk Kenya's politicians back from the precipice.
This is where change gets hard, when you start going after the real hard things that have been holding us back for so long.
As I noted in my piece on some New Hampshire lawyers who find themselves having to pay Maine income taxes, multi-state tax issues are a source of aggravation for ordinary regional businesses or even local businesses in areas like New England, where, unless you start in northern Maine and drive south, it is very hard to go an appreciable distance without crossing a state line.
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The offering is proof that while hard partying 20-somethings at start-ups such as Yelp may grab headlines, the new tech boom is creating real money for companies that may be less sexy but more useful.
But between Belarus and Bulgaria it is hard to meet a young person who is not desperate to start a new life in the West.
It is not hard to see demand growth being dragged down at the start of next year by a planned rise in value-added tax in Germany and budgetary tightening in Italy.
We start off talking about why a singular definition of what qualifies as "HD" is hard -- if not impossible -- to come up with in our ever-branching media landscape.
The industry is hitting the promotional pedal hard this year in an attempt to jump-start online sales.
When will this discrepancy start to show up in reduced production?? Well, certainly this decade, but it is darn hard to know what year.
For a start this puts Apple back on its long term trend, so if you are technically minded it is hard not to see that as reasonable.
But it will be a long, hard season ahead, and when a driver goes through difficult times it is natural to start looking further afield.
Trading can be hard enough for folks without the extra fear that they are absolutely doomed from the start because of who is on the other side of the trade.
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