Just like athletes and coaches, officials try hard to do the best job possible.

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"You're really going to try hard to do better, " Gonzalez says.

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As with all other issues of this nature, at least in my view, the issue of "rock star" compensation and the like needs to be considered in a nuanced way, taking into account each company's particular circumstances, and approached with a presumption that boards of directors in fact try hard to do the right thing.

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Most of them will work hard to try to do well financially.

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This is a common scientific activity that cannot be automated by statistics, no matter how often or how hard people try to do so.

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Like so many responsible Americans -- folks who work hard every day, who try to do the right thing -- she was forced to hang her fortunes on chance.

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What I'm going to do is just play hard and compete on the ice and battle and try to fit in.

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Now we have worked hard to do our part and to try honestly explore the contention of the opponents of this bill that this is going to cost them too much money.

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"Yes, he's shown a lot of faith in me, and now training under him I'll try to show what I can do by working hard and showing the right attitude, " he said.

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Example: If General Motors wants to slap down Web juggernauts like AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft, Amazon.com, RealNetworks and MP3.com in the race to own the car portal, it will have to do what a Web company does: price for market share, not margin, and then try hard as heck to scale up rapidly.

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