When two-thirds of voters say the country is on the right track, it's hard to make a case for change.

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In a time of budget crisis and large cuts at the Pentagon it is hard to make such a case.

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In looking at a sample of American blue chips that often come up dividend screens, it is hard to make such a case.

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But it is hard to make such a case for all bubbles.

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"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.

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And yet, "When you talk about Adele's year, it's hard to make the case, from a recorded music perspective, that anyone else is even in the same arena, " he continued.

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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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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.

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So they really were trying hard to make an investigation in this case, you know, come to a conclusion.

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And though consumer prices have risen a bit this year, it would be hard to make the case that inflation is about to roar anywhere in the developed world.

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