He expected them to work as hard as he did.

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The euro was hit hard after the ECB did not raise rates, as most expected, and implied that that rates would stay unchanged for a while.

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This represents a big shift, as traditionally most CMOs have not been expected to provide hard financial evidence of their ROI.

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Although it expected to benefit from falling hard disk prices as suppliers recovered from last year's Thai floods, it warned that the savings would be offset by higher memory and display costs.

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The company has had a hard quarter, and a hard last couple of quarters, delivering weaker than expected earnings as the stock seesawed through the last 12 months.

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If - as expected - the bill is ratified by parliament and by the hard-line Guardian Council, it will make Iran a member of the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, which was created in 1999 and came into force in 2002.

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As might be expected, especially from a government-run station, NHK tried hard to introduce a more upbeat and hopeful aspect of the situation.

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Goldman Sachs analyst James Covello this morning trimmed his EPS estimates for Intel to reflect the expected impact on the company from the restricted supply of hard disk-drives as a result of the severe flooding in Thailand.

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The game was physical as expected, with Olynyk getting a forearm across his neck in the first half but continuing to go hard at the basket.

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