Mr Bush was far keener to experiment a hard case to make when things are genuinely going so well.
Tan, of course, will say that he has no choice but to close PAL - and given the carrier's abysmal arithmetic it is a hard case to counter.
"If the business case is to make the mall a better mall, that's a hard case to make today, " said Spencer Levy, executive managing director of capital markets for CBRE Group Inc.
Every legal expert I have read has said the SEC has a hard case to make, which may be why only three of the five SEC Commissioners voted for proceeding with the prosecution.
Which is why it's so weird that Uniea would go out on a limb and produce a hard leather case "for new iPod" (which we've been affectionately referring to as the nano fatty).
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Not only does the package include inserts for cutting through the plastic, but it highlights the product's unique presentation controls by offering a rotating plastic pod that functions as a hard carrying case once the product is unpacked.
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Shaw hedge fund, publishes pulp fiction, half of it reprints from decades ago and half of it new, including a novel by Stephen King, who is himself a fan of pulps and volunteered to write a book for Hard Case even though he could've dealt with a big house for a lot more money.
It offers the full protection of a hard-shell case with an ultra-thin, light-weight, low-profile design.
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Fitted in vehicles mainly for insurance purposes, the cameras store pictures on a hard drive in case of incident, and have provided a rich vein of material on social media and video-sharing websites.
Even in a tort-crazy nation it's hard to find a case where a jury ruled that a bat manufacturer was responsible for a fan's injury.
The vogue for appointing co-chief executives, a common feature of today's friendly deals, looks like a case of avoiding hard decisions.
An airplane adapter and a specially designed hard carrying case add to their on-the-go convenience.
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In a time of budget crisis and large cuts at the Pentagon it is hard to make such a case.
In looking at a sample of American blue chips that often come up dividend screens, it is hard to make such a case.
With the economy still going like a train, even the most fervent believer in the new economy would be hard pressed to mount a strong case against gentle pressure on the brakes.
When two-thirds of voters say the country is on the right track, it's hard to make a case for change.
"The market is having a hard time making a bullish case for oil, " said Hussein Allidina, head of commodity research at Morgan Stanley.
The Microsoft strategy sounds more like a niche strategy for hard-core gamers, in which case it's investment in a console strategy should be smaller and more targeted.
Given that she had already incriminated herself in the recorded conversation, refusing to decrypt the hard drive just becomes a case of withholding evidence for which she can be held in contempt.
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The economy is clearly slowing down, though the hard landing narrative is still a worst case scenario rather than a certain one.
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At his keynote talk during the Flash Memory Summit Jeff Burke from Seagate presented a compelling case for the growth of hard disk drives and flash memory in the coming years.
The inquiry will examine a report from the FBI regarding the hard drive, lawyers involved in the case say, after assertions about its contents by a private-sector expert stoked the Todd family's suspicions that Mr. Todd's death might have been the result of foul play.
But Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has put on what appears on the surface to be a simple case, but of course, any case that looks that simple has been hard to be put together.
Going beyond the MIL-STD-810G certification with the ability to withstand a six-foot drop, and with a shock-mounted hard drive, magnesium alloy case and UL1604 Class I Division 2 certification, this mobile computer is optimized to operate in hazardous and mission-critical environments.
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The Toughbook SX2 is designed to withstand a highly mobile work environment, Its magnesium alloy case and shock-mounted flex-connect hard drive allow it to handle up to a 30-inch drop to the base of the unit while operating, as well as a 12-inch drop from all other angles.
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