That hardheaded approach makes the applications more like business plans than traditional research programs, Klausner says.

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Barak will be no less hardheaded when it comes to Israel's fundamental security than was his predecessor.

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Ziolkowski, who died in 1982, was hard-living, hard-working and perhaps most important, hardheaded.

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According to Bruce Bairnsfather, one of the most popular soldier-writers of the first world war, the Tommies were just as hardheaded.

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That's bound to appeal to the hardheaded Crandall--so much so that I'm guessing POGO will wait a couple years for the Embraer Phenom 100.

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As for the idea that behind his showmanship there is little substance, he points to the various hardheaded types who have been through his books and gone on to become his partners.

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Now in order for this belief system to operate effectively, it has to continually position the journalist and his or her observations not as right where others are wrong, or virtuous where others are corrupt, or visionary where others are short-sghted, but as practical, hardheaded, unsentimental, and shrewd where others are didactic, ideological, and dreamy.

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