First, Mr Blair suggests in the video that being prime minister is terribly hard work.

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Though most judges and attorneys will tell you otherwise, it's not terribly hard to get off jury duty.

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So called synergies, he asserts, are terribly hard to come by for airlines.

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Rather, it's workable, and should you have an Oculus dev kit (they're shipping out right now), it's not terribly hard to make the game play nice with the headset.

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Lupus is a terribly hard disease to treat.

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These things are terribly hard to do.

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It would not be terribly hard for Apple to upgrade its Airport line of wireless home-networking products to increase data-transmission speeds and create a new hardware device that allows users of its iTunes music software to play their music on home stereo systems.

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But it's hard to take this terribly seriously, Renee, as a real legislative effort.

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It's hard to pick which one that'd be: Symbian, though terribly out-of-date, is still wildly popular in Europe and emerging markets, while MeeGo is technically promising but has yet to make any impact in the market whatsoever.

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At the risk of sounding terribly naive let me remind that Mike Rice wasn't working for a Fortune 500 company or a hard-charging startup.

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Yes, big corporate money likes a good old hard landing, the sky is falling, the housing bubble is popping like a Fourth of July gone terribly wrong, and manufacturing fleeing to build in Alabama story.

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