And you just mentioned, let's do the fun stuff before we do the hard stuff.
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The Victorians loved highland scenery, and this was the hard stuff: Scotland turned up to 11.
They excel in both the hard stuff and the soft stuff of business.
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We do the hard stuff so you can do the fun stuff.
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"I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction, " he says.
The hard stuff is made up of the classic virtues dear to the hearts of finance and operations people: cost, speed, supply chain, analytics.
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The hard stuff is often also the easiest to imitate.
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The difference between a good NBA team and a mediocre one is its ability to power through these lackluster opponents, saving the struggle for the hard stuff later on.
Up front is a sprawling deli counter of meats and cheeses, freshly baked bread, and imported oils and vinegars, as well as a small bar that houses orange juice and coffee machines along with the hard stuff.
Just yesterday, Pepsi (nyse: PEP - news - people ) said it will introduce Pepsi Edge, its mid-calorie product designed to appeal to those who can't decide between Diet Pepsi and the hard stuff.
The country's creaking railways make it hard to move the stuff, as does the absence of a mechanism to negotiate bulk rail contracts.
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We are going to work hard and the stuff we are going to do is going to highlight what we do well.
And one of the things that I've felt very strongly about during the course of this year is that hard stuff requires not paralysis, but it requires going ahead and making the best of the situation that you're in at this point, and then continually trying to improve and make progress from there.
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And talking straight to the American people about how we're going to solve these problems, and putting in the hard work of negotiations to get stuff done.
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And, as generations of children can attest, parents are constantly trying to offer up healthy snacks such as bananas, raisins, oranges and pretzels, but to the die-hard candy user, this stuff is near beer.
That will be at the expense of Kevin Maggs who did his usual hard-working stock-in-trade stuff, but looked a shade off the pace.
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But this is tough stuff, hard to swallow for the current Israeli government.
Mr. RIZZO: OK. When I started coming up as a young jazz pianist in the '50s--and I'm giving my age away here--Bill Evans was the only guy on the scene who did not play in the tradition of the prevailing trend, which was hard bob gospel weird stuff.
Having set prices for the work required to get stuff, it is not to hard to set prices to rent stuff to each other.
But that doesn't mean that the industrial design firm's not hard at work conceptualizin' stuff, as this promo vid chock full of possible future e-books amply demonstrates.
Things that are so random and quirky that as a writer, I know how hard that stuff is to invent, and it really had the ring of truth to it.
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"We work so hard to help people in our community when the government is holding back stuff that we can use to give people, " said Glenda Perryman, director of United Hearts Community Action Agency.
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"It was really hard for me for about 45 minutes when I was on the bus crying and stuff, " Smith said.
But the appeal of letting the Americans get on with what they know best, freeing himself to concentrate on the French stuff, while taking a stake in any new entity, might be hard to refuse.
It's still hard to find this stuff outside of Canada, where you can pick up any of the products through the Loblaws supermarket chain.
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