His balancing act is delicate: Britain may find his integrationism hard to bear, France may resent his liberalising instinct and even Mr Monti's authority may not divert Germany from its self-defeating obsession with austerity.
The Fed and other regulators will work hard to ensure that Bear ends up under the wing of a stronger rival.
Even the most die-hard bear has to be at least a little nervous.
Hard not to notice the Bear Bryant -- congratulations to your Crimson Tide.
In retrospect, Croesus would be hard put to argue the bear market is over, the recession will be moderate and short, and the bottom has been seen in financial stocks.
Amazingly, a large number seem ready to put the blame on themselves, and, as if to show that they bear the retail trade no hard feelings, they wander off peacefully down the road to do their shopping at a nearby Tesco instead.
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It will be hard for many parents to let their student bear the financial cost of overspending or making a late payment.
In some cases, the lawyers investigating a matter become personally invested in the case, and cannot bear to see their hard work go to waste.
This emphasis on positive managerial relationships, trust and honest communication is nothing unexpected, but does add hard data reinforcing sound practices for all leaders to bear in mind if they hope to motivate their work force.
According to Dave Rosenberg, seen by many as a perma-bear, it will be really hard for a self-sustaining recovery to pick up.
However, as Peter Boone and Simon Johnson of the Peterson Institute in Washington, DC, explain, Germany then signalled that defaults could happen and that investors would have to bear a share of the losses a reasonable demand, but a hard one to introduce in the middle of a crisis.
Once you've taken a bear's path, though, it's hard to backtrack.
While I am a card-carrying member of the glass-is-at-least-half-full club and you may find it hard to believe, I actually do have friends that regularly reside in the bear camp.
Hintz added that Bear Stearns has always been an independent firm, making it hard for him to believe that it would suddenly change the corporate culture.
Some will say that your lifestyle of excess over the years led you to this point, and that it's lazy to go under the knife to resolve such a dramatic problem rather than bear down, hit the treadmill and do it the hard way.
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