Mr Bush was far keener to experiment a hard case to make when things are genuinely going so well.
Hard Case Crime, run by Charles Ardai, who founded Internet service provider Juno and has a day job overseeing biotech investments at the secretive D.
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.
The bigger problem with the hard case is that it takes up a huge amount of room, both at home and in the trunk of your rental car.
"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.
Claiming, and believing, that the purpose of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was to liberate otherwise tolerant and liberal-minded Muslims from the yoke of authoritarian governments, neoconservatives promoted an argument that permitted Republicans to avoid making the hard case for victory.
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.
An airplane adapter and a specially designed hard carrying case add to their on-the-go convenience.
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The hard protective case helps to prevent scratches and dings, and the ergonomic design provides optimal comfort and control.
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Another hard luck case is Research in Motion -- now BlackBerry.
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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So when I read about the public outrage over how Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Heymann of Boston is being called out for pushing too hard in the case of alleged computer hacker Aaron Swartz (committed suicide) I recounted other cases of hard-charging prosecutors in cases that I have covered.
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It offers the full protection of a hard-shell case with an ultra-thin, light-weight, low-profile design.
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Then there's encryption software to seal off your hard drive in case your computer goes for a walk.
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.
However, government prosecutors are pushing this case hard.
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P3 folds up for easy storage, and stows away into its own compact hard-shell carry case.
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Yet it is not hard to make the case that Pakistan has been suckered by its enemies.
When two-thirds of voters say the country is on the right track, it's hard to make a case for change.
Add it up, and it is hard to make the case that taxpayers benefit by having their government help finance shopping malls.
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.
It's hard to find the case against flexible work these days.
But it is hard to make that case for Iceland, a democracy that benefited from open markets in other countries to indulge in an acquisition spree.
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Time is of the essence for the U.S. if the Doha round is to be resumed, and the administration is pushing hard to make its case.
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