She had dirty grey hair around a face cut from a hard wood with a blunt tool.

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Keeping up-to-date on insurance policy assessments is also vital if you have renovated your digs, like redoing the windows, installing new hard wood floors or finishing the basement.

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The early chapters describe one complex deal after another, and it becomes hard to see the wood for the securitised trees.

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Other companies have crafted cases out of silicone, wood and hard polycarbonate.

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Getting comfortable with a new driver was a cinch, but he and the fitters in TaylorMade's equipment van, which follows the Tour, worked hard to get his three wood right.

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It earned the label "poor man's tennis" because pieces of wood, or even even hard-cover books, were used as rackets.

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Another of Kern's photographs, taken in a squat in a former cabaret restaurant, shows a young man and woman, semi-clothed and hard at work to repair and alter their surroundings using cloth and wood.

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Moreover, since the pyramid of people who ever swing a three-wood is small in the global scheme, it is hard to argue that the best golfer in the world is really the best that mankind can offer.

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In theory, this should make it hard to forge paperwork and easy to catch those who misrepresent the amount of wood they have harvested, or where it has come from.

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But the current model of the fire service is over 50 years old and it's hard to argue the need for two stations which are just over one mile apart - at Matfield and Paddock Wood.

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