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.
But it is also true that what remains is hard stuff -- entitlement reform and tax reform.
It is hard to persuade people to do hard stuff that entails trimming benefits and increasing revenues.
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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.
Hard stuff gets resolved before it gets to the level of conversations between the President, the Vice President and the leaders of Congress.
They foreswear the hard stuff of reform but they have few answers to how an addicted public can kick the habit of government dependency.
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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They spend their time doing easy stuff instead of the hard stuff like recruiting terrorists because they're afraid that some day it might come back to bite them.
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.
The principle is that children should be reached while they are still fairly pliable and before they begin to take drugs not just the hard stuff but alcohol, marijuana and tobacco.
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Putting humans in a vehicle with millions of parts, atop thousands of pounds of explosives, and then operating it at high speeds while monitoring thousands of variables that rapidly change is hard stuff.
Those who believe cannabis to be a gateway to opioids and other highly dangerous drugs fail to appreciate that the illegal purchase of marijuana exposes consumers to dealers who push the hard stuff.
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.
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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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 are going to work hard and the stuff we are going to do is going to highlight what we do well.
You know, the impolite, filthy, R-rated "Hard Knocks" 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 this is tough stuff, hard to swallow for the current Israeli government.
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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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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