"I was always one of these kids who had the smart back-answer in school - a right hard-faced, cheeky young man, " he told Roy Plomley on a 1972 edition of Desert Island Discs.
They lived by selling their labour and when markets turned down they faced hard times.
Despite the hard times he faced in this early days at Geico, Mr. Byrne was known for a humorous approach.
We have faced hard decisions about peace and war, rising competition in the world economy, and the health and welfare of our citizens.
In response to the report, Doug Brooks, the president of a body that represents private security contractors, said contractors in the field faced hard choices regarding whom to employ.
So we have faced hard times before.
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After winning a decisive reelection victory Tuesday, President Barack Obama told thousands of supporters in Chicago that he would reach out to leaders of both parties to tackle the hard issues that faced the country in the wake of a fiercely partisan campaign and against the backdrop of a divided congress embroiled in a historic budget battle.
At the time the council's leader said he wanted to protect frontline services, but the authority faced "hard choices".
But Democrats feared that showing leadership on the hard budget choices they faced would hurt them in the November election, so they punted.
Right now it looks like another school that got swept up by sports, and learned a lesson the hard way: when faced with the truth, the truth is undefeated.
And then as the financial crisis hit with its full force, America faced a hard and once unimaginable reality, that two of the Big 3 automakers -- GM and Chrysler -- were on the brink of liquidation.
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Let them feel the hard landing that my constituents faced when they were laid off at Bethlehem Steel.
It will be hard for his fresh-faced new team to regain lost ground before parliamentary elections in November.
Whatever you think of the rubber-faced funnyman, hard-boiled sax-noodling anti-hero is unlikely to be the first image that comes to mind.
He will call upon the men and women serving under his command to make choices as hard as the ones we faced.
Last year, Ireland faced England with optimism following a hard-fought victory over Wales.
But the sticking-point appears to be the Twenty20 competition after a summer where players faced a saturated fixture list which many found hard to swallow.
When he faced his career ending neck surgery, I was rooting hard for him to make it back to the game.
Lead researcher Dr Anne Lazenbatt, from the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Queen's University Belfast, said medical staff faced a tough challenge and needed support when making such hard decisions.
Given his opposition to same-sex marriage and the pressure an openly gay staffer faced from conservatives, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will be hard-pressed to get similar support from the gay and lesbian community.
Viehbacher has worked hard to stablize Sanofi, a proud French company, as it has faced the expiration of the patents on many of its biggest drugs: best-sellers like Plavix for heart disease and Eloxatin and Taxotere for cancer.
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Wal-Mart also faced well-established rivals in Germany, like Metro, and hard discounters such as Aldi and Lidl, already comfortable with razor-thin profit margins.
Finally, though only at apprentice level, bright-faced and towering Silas Farley stood out in all his ensemble roles with hard-to-miss radiance.
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Faced with drastic cuts in the military budget, commanders have been working hard to reduce the number of personnel who are assigned to these missions.
Faced with this untidy set of choices, a sensible philosophy would not make hard-and-fast judgments about what businesses belong together.
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Beginning in 2007, when the U.S. faced the most severe financial crisis since the Great Depression, Latinos have been hit hard.
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In a hard-hitting judgement, Lord Hoffman said that Shahanna Islam, a graduate trainee schoolteacher from Karachi, faced threats from her husband and his political friends after becoming involved in a political dispute nine years ago.
"I learned the hard way, " says Ms. Sullivan, noting that she wasn't prepared for the expenses she faced after graduate school.
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