It was hard times for a few years as many companies had overspent and then cut back on spending, he said. |
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A car zipped past and I wondered where the police were in regular, undramatic, hard times. |
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There is something poetic in the way the names roll, evoking notions of pride in unremitting labour, unity in poverty, resilience in hard times. |
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She gives a doggedly unsensational account of rampant, abusive teens in a company town fallen on hard times. |
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My neighbour was notoriously unsound politically and had been through hard times after being purged in 1948 from the Czech news agency. |
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But with the advent of softer fabrics and the dreaded shell suit, fashions changed and the tweed producers fell on hard times. |
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Companies with high net profit margins have a bigger cushion to protect themselves during the hard times. |
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Whatever the tax rate is, it will go up because it's easier for the state to raise so-called sin taxes when the economy falls on hard times. |
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Perhaps because he had known hard times himself he could thole the hard times of the nation. |
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A woman who has fallen on hard times finds a potential saviour among the gravestones. |
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It is her ability to deal with the hard times that her son-in-law so admires. |
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People were having hard times, relationship difficulties, and it does rub off on you. |
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Einstein is still a towering figure, Freud a very influential one, Marx has fallen on hard times. |
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My sister Ann and her family have also been an unfailing source of support in good as well as hard times. |
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During those hard times, the poor quality food barely appeased my aching belly. |
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No matter what happens to our nation, even when Egypt may fall on hard times, we can never be ignored. |
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Though always busy with his work, Michael never forgot to enquire for friends who were sick, lonely or fell on hard times. |
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The word crisis is too often used to exaggerate the predicament of a club experiencing hard times. |
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The ground cover thrives, but ground cover is the catfish of the plant world, a bottom feeder that always makes it through hard times. |
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Sinatra was born into hard times, the son of Italian immigrants, in Hoboken, New Jersey. |
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The word creationism, coined in 1868 in opposition to what was then called Darwinism or evolutionism, had fallen on hard times. |
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One advantage of corporate bonds over equities for investors is what happens if the company falls on hard times. |
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It shows the hard times spent over attempts to extract a meaning out of signs. |
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They have all felt the pinch of our economic hard times as a crushing burden they were unfamiliar with until the last two-three years. |
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So it's up to you to show that a squirrel knows about winter, and hard times ahead, when it buries nuts. |
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During hard times, league offices kept indigents like the Browns alive by providing handouts. |
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I have the greatest sympathy with those on hard times as I have experienced that myself. |
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Yep, those were hard times. We had a lot of fun, too. I never remember us ever going without. |
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Before the hard times, she had simply sold her fleeces to the British Wool Board. |
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Some time later he experienced hard times and was forced to sell some of his land. |
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At one time, they were treasured possessions, but now have fallen on hard times. |
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She was a good parishioner and the best of mothers, who raised a family in hard times and was never heard to grumble. |
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I know, it sounds silly to say that you go through hard times with someone you've never met, but we did. |
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Daniel said that the centre had given him support and stability through hard times. |
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On the one hand, cash supplies a cushion against hard times or a war chest to bankroll growth strategies. |
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They were started by chalk quarriers a thousand years ago, and have sheltered citizens and soldiers in hard times ever since. |
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He can give you hope and the strength to endure whatever hard times come your way. |
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The hard times we are experiencing today, due to the misalignment of over-consumption financed by debt, are severe. |
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People's generosity and the ideology of reciprocity palliated the experiences of poverty, hard times, and corn shortages. |
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Relaxation helps you to build energy that can be called upon to get you through hard times. |
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I've known hard times and good times, but writing has always been my personal salvation and I don't think I could live without it. |
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This once-prestigious vocation has fallen on hard times, and for most now conjures little more than hierarchical abuse and sexual repression. |
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That system was not put in place to encourage layabouts, but to help people who had fallen on hard times through no fault of their own. |
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They were to meet in a restaurant and pose as two friends trying to patch up some hard times. |
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The ski industry is not doomed, says Harrison, but it is certainly heading for some hard times. |
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The unfortunate Washington man had hit hard times and was determined to get his hands on some loot. |
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Our military spouses-this happens in most places in Canada-are having hard times getting jobs because they're married to a military person. |
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In the hard times of the 1930s, unemployed men and transient hobos often took temporary refuge on the island, erecting small shanty towns of tents. |
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On top of this he said that if you fell on hard times, you would find a more human and understanding approach in the credit union, than the banks. |
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The oil and gas sector in Alberta would face no hard times or no encumbering of its business. |
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Our older guys who have fallen on hard times are not only the victims of alcohol dependence or psychiatric illness but also familial neglect and institutional neglect. |
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Businesses are taking steps to keep cash from going out the door, and they are bringing in fresh money by borrowing to create a cushion to carry them through hard times. |
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In these hard times we cannot leave fishermen and their families standing alone. |
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You band together to support each other through hard times, and to create a better military community for all. |
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Faced with such hard times, people yearned for some empathy and warmth from their taskmaster but Mr Kubilius remained aloof. |
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It is not being used for its intended purpose which is to help people such as chambermaids who fall on hard times. |
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She says she was four-square behind the campaign to wring as much money from the clubs as possible in order to help fund players in the lower leagues who fall on hard times. |
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Real, but fewer than they pretend in hard times, when jittery financial markets will be watching closely. |
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If necessary, in hard times, one tightened one's belt and went without. |
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With the shipping industry going through hard times, anyone can pick up a second-hand freighter at bargain-basement prices. |
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I appreciate that the hon. member will judge a government by what it does during the hard times. |
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Under the previous government, there had been hard times in recent years in terms of the development of transport in Canada. |
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It is essentially a family company that has come upon hard times. |
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Even reproducing artists are beginning to sense the hard times ahead. |
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And yet, through generations of hard times, some families stubbornly kept the faith that this historic village would have its day. |
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But we were not demanding and we pulled through those hard times without suffering too much from hunger or cold. |
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In addition, the companies that can offer the best service and solutions during hard times stand out from the crowd and gain market share. |
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It seemed then, as it does now, that as soon as a company is held up as the poster child for how to create a successful business, it falls on hard times. |
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Yet it seems certain that the hard times are going to continue for several months yet, and it's not unlikely that they might get worse. |
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I think for example that beyond money there is a fraternity today which links us because we lived through these hard times together. |
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This in turn means difficulties for businesses and hard times for workers and for society as a whole. |
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During hard times, we've noticed that glasses-wearers may delay their purchase by several months, but the sale is never lost. |
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There are already indications that the System is adjusting to the hard times. |
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He remembers hard times when they had to cut trees with the most rudimentary of tools. |
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We know that Tory times are hard times and we see coming down the pike the possibility of a recession. |
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There's no secret to it, you know, unemployment and hard times affect everyone in this world. |
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I think though that these hard times are behind us and the new system will now rapidly be put in place. |
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The Russian family of whom Natasha Richardson's character is a member has fallen on such hard times the others must depend on her income as a taxi dancer in louche clubs. |
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Huntsman knew the government and the board would not rebuild the station, not in these hard times, maybe never. |
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As an advocate for hard times and the impending global apocalypse, I'm disappointed whenever a potential murderous despot loses his insane grip on the world. |
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They were hard times but through it all Mae showed a remarkable resilient nature, aided by her deep faith from which she drew sustenance and strength. |
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He thought that in hard times, people needed the distraction of games. |
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The decade that followed brought high times and hard times, and the hard times usually came from Jessica's thralldom to her chosen saviors. |
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As we all know, with work or anything else that we do, there must be disadvantages or hard times but for him those won't be clouding his time at the resort. |
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These are hard times, and there's a lot of ambient anger looking for a target. |
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In hard times, every waking moment was spent foraging for food. |
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The Benevolent Fund helps former players who have hit on hard times. |
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Mads Mikkelsen stars as Lucas, a man living in a close-knit Danish village who has fallen on hard times after his divorce. |
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He can chuckle over some of the hard times of his young adulthood though you can sense the hurt that lingers behind the easy jokes and witticisms. |
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If hard times hit, the program is flexible enough to allow mortgages to be renegotiated. |
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The family then fell on hard times, and hardy moved to live with relatives in the Chicago area. |
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In hard times, some women would take in washing and others dressmaking repairs. |
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Sitting alone at his window-seat, he was like an old boulevardier fallen on hard times, waspish, inward, slothful. |
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The 1930s brought hard times but the company remained in fair financial health despite the Depression. |
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Marius' quaestor in 107 BC had been Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, the son of a patrician family that had fallen on hard times. |
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If it wasn't for you guys the hard times would have been un-escapable. |
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Many decisions and personal financial commitments were made during better times, but under the spectre of hard times, those decisions have become financial burdens which weigh heavy and cause you to lose sleep every night. |
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On the other hand, hard times and discomfort can become a source of infinite inspiration driving the artist to defy gravity and reach new heights. |
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She is now a hot favourite to win her second Oscar at the Academy Awards in March for her performance as a New York socialite who falls on hard times and is forced to live with her sister in San Francisco. |
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He hopes to market them on everything from mouse mats to knickers, and says that we are all in need of a dirty laugh in these hard times. |
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What has helped you cope with hard times in the past? |
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When one is seeking support to make it through hard times, searching for a new job opportunity, or simply living a full and active life, it pays to know people. |
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Perhaps changes in taxation policy would not solve all the problems, but they would enable us to react more quickly to market developments and would make it easier to survive hard times. |
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Recent research has demonstrated that companies with adequate information, consultation and participation of workers function better, especially in hard times. |
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Then, at the end of 1972, Investors Group did the same with its holding in Montreal Trust, which had fallen on hard times and was in need of better management. |
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God is always with us both in the good times and in hard times. |
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Even though you have many hard times on this earth, you can fulfill all your duties with joy if you consider Heaven the most precious thing of all. |
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In most of the developed countries, unemployment is rising again, fiscal deficits are growing, large corporations and small businesses have fallen on hard times and consumers are worried. |
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Long before the hard times began, Canada's financial system was well capitalized, with one of the most effective regulatory frameworks in the world. |
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But there are some hard times ahead according to a detailed reading of the Tarot cards. |
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When hard times hit the gym, he was put on half time subsidising his earnings as a snow shoveller in Harlem. |
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I support everything they have to go through, the hard times. |
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In the early 20th century, more hard times came to the region when the boll weevil arrived and devastated the cotton crop. |
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Cross said hard times in the wood products industry last year will probably lead to lower attendance among loggers and displayers. |
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The G-20 First Ladies club did not disappoint in the style department, but these are hard times and the safest image to portray is of being a recessionista. |
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Once a great city on the northern end of the Vembanad lagoon, capital of the Chera dynasty of Sangam period, Cranganore had since fallen on hard times. |
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As of 2011, Georgia is encouraging Afrikaner immigration to assist in reviving the country's agriculture industry, which has fallen on hard times. |
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With the rise of the Internet, some media fell on hard times. |
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