the futon is good for you , i insist , because it 's good for the back when the bed is hard and firm .

  the software also lets you save parts of the screen as graphic files on disk and lets you magnify menus -- they can be hard to read when you 're using a large screen with high resolution .

  well , maybe that is n 't so hard to imagine .

  `` as resident manager , it 's hard for me to imagine a full-fledged research facility without an airfield attached to it , " compton said .

  after two years of hard work , denice decided to call it quits .

  we have heard this so often that it 's hard to know any longer if it 's a lament or an excuse for the neglect of the youngest and poorest americans .

  it 's the smaller companies that are taking a hard look at the overall security operation , " said mark giudici , senior industry analyst for dataquest inc . in san jose .

  mrs . goulart served as the bookkeeper , and her husband says her hard work and attention to detail helped make the store a success .

  thanks to the hard work of diligent researchers , the classic two-reel comedies of the legendary chick morton and eddie hayes , long believed lost , have been discovered in a forgotten film vault and tonight they 'll begin an unprecedented revival on cbs .

  yet 80 years later , surrounded by crime and crumbling housing , it 's hard to believe any city ever had the answers , let alone knew all the questions .

  when buying radishes , look for firm , hard fleshed and unblemished ones .

  the first issue included a news story on a major sale of vintage jerseys , a background piece on the unique style of hard to-find 1970 cleveland indians shirts and a short list of 1991 uniform changes .

  they learned war the hard way , not as staff types who got their vietnam tickets punched far from the shooting .

  put cut pieces on plaster board to dry to firm leather - hard state .

  that record-breaking hard freeze ravished tropical and mediterranean plants in bay area gardens .

  the instrument is shown in fig . 1 and consists essentially of a hard , sharp , tungsten carbide knife which is pushed along the substrate to remove the coating .

  if necessary , trim it by using the straightedge and a fresh knife blade , or by rubbing it against fine-grit sandpaper laid flat on a hard work surface .

  `` but did he excel by sheer dint of hard work ? " the times asked .

  the town has a variety of rates based on flatland areas and hard to-serve areas , but the most common service is for two cans per household , which will go from $ 10 . 30 to $ 11 . 72 per month .

  no hard ones to duck ; during jane pauley 's interview with pete rose ( to be telecast sunday ) , she asks charlie hustle if his agreeing to the interview was just a public relations `` hustle . ''

  `` 'the torkelsons ' is a lovely show , but they 're wedged in between two hard , adult comedies , " he said .

  it was easy to take it as a period piece , and apparently there were no hard feelings all around .

  yet with rare exceptions ( philip morris is one , incidentally ) , managements still spend most of their time managing what they can touch -- the roughly 10 percent of assets that are `` hard . ''

  while gates ' response might be believable , what 's harder to believe is that the preconditions for such savagery will change without an end to the secrecy that surrounds how most peace officers ' departments deal with excesses .

  disagreement over other matters has kept hard feelings from dying , she said .

  `` there are no hard feelings , " humphrey said .

  but in the human sense , it is hard to imagine that the most inept of the old managers could have done a worse job of managing change than the executives of g . e . , capital cities and larry tisch did .

  writing 's hard work , all right , but it does n 't take up a lot of canin 's day .

  on streets where life can be as hard , gray and dirty as the sidewalks , people seem to want art .

  `` but sometimes it is hard work .

  york also believes that double-walled , hard sided coolers like little igloos , thermos brands and such are a good bet because the two walls are an efficient way to use air 's excellent insulation properties .

  i think it 's really hard to laugh on camera at nothing . ''

  with a hard bristle brush , he presses the dutch metal onto the railing ornament , carefully working it into each groove of its acanthusleaf pattern .

  which makes her withdrawal and grief that much harder to take .

  ( box ) as the resin beads remove the minerals , they slowly get saturated with `` hard '' material .

  `` it caused a very , very hard look to be taken at our county 's child welfare system , " keeley said .

  ( check ) if the weight of a hard shell helmet strains your neck , pick a thin shell .

  sen . ernest f . hollings , d-s . c . , chairman of the senate commerce committee , has put the federal communications commission on notice that he expects the fcc to take a hard look at any request for a waiver to the government 's `` cross-ownership '' rules .

  print `` not very hard at all . ''

  virtually unemployable in the '50s , as either writer or director , sturges concluded : `` it appeared that i had developed a reputation for being too expensive and hard to handle to boot .

  the phrase `` consent of the governed '' needs a hard look .

  `` they 're caught between a rock and a hard place . ''

  as the name suggests , a green plantain has a hard bright green skin .

  that miracle happened to him at maryland state prison , where he was serving hard time for assaulting a guard , which followed his conviction on weapons-possession charges , which followed his earlier manslaughter conviction for killing a man in a knife fight .

  never again ; speaking of feuds or temperament clashes , how about the recent hard feelings expressed by art garfunkel about not being invited to perform at simon 's central park concert ?

  he said tuesday there are no hard feelings .

  by 1990 , his self-published pamphlets on the masculinity crisis had been compiled and reissued in hard cover by a leading publisher -- and the book , `` iron john , " quickly scaled the new york times best-seller list .

  common practice now is to cultivate rot-resistant tomatoes , harvest them while they are still green and hard , and gas them to make them look red .

  both stress hard work .

  `` it 's hard for us girls ! " she says and laughs .

  for playing the leading parts of two c . o . 's of a highland regiment are alec guinness and john mills , the one having won the affection of his men by leading them through the war , and the other a hard , efficient newcomer who is heartily disliked by the majority of the soldiers .

  some of canada 's wheat customers rely for milling on canada 's high-grade , high-protein , hard red spring wheat .

  it 's hard to evaluate . ''

  that 's the hard truth city council members presented when they passed a $ 66 million general fund budget for fiscal 1992 that will trim programs and services to make up a $ 2 . 5 million shortfall .

  while roper declined to comment further on its change of heart , mr . sankey said that `` the board was caught between a rock and a hard place . ''

  when i ask people nearby to keep their radios off , they act like i am crazy and give me a hard time .

  the cut in the short-term prime business-loan rate by major banks puts new light on a key development under way in the national mortgage market : the price spread between long-term fixed and short-term adjustable-rate mortgages has widened to the point where smart money-shoppers should take a hard look at adjustables .

  i also have arthritis in my left hip , which makes it doubly hard for me to reach my customers at times .

  they were better live than on record , because guitarist mick jones gave the songs a harder edge .

  it 's making you hard , joyce .

  it 's hard to keep coming up with incentives to keep you focused on your body .

  the hard , boxy edges have been rounded for a more aerodynamic appearance .

  and , it 's hard to really dislike a club that has a model biplane piloted by gumby and pokey .

  ragged scrubland and manicured lawns had the same bleak blanket of hard gray crust .

  `` they spoke with a degree of knowledge , experience and currency that was hard to overlook . ''

  still , gazing around the deserted shopping mall , it was n 't hard to see what had driven this poor store owner over the edge .

  one example : the hard stick of the timpanist virtually turns the opening minute into a kettle-drum concerto .

  in five years as director of san jose repertory theatre , near has explored provocative topics such as the survival of love in a hard world ( `` arms and the man , " `` burning patience '' and `` a streetcar named desire '' all came from that season ) ; the illusion of success ( that was the year of `` all my sons , " `` the rainmaker '' and `` orphans '' ) ; and the aftereffects of loneliness ( `` fences , " `` the caretaker , " `` dracula '' and `` the geography of luck '' ) .

  `` they 're very hard but can have a lot of cracks and fractures , and sometimes pieces will break off . ''

  replacement leads and scribes for marking metal , glass and other hard materials are stored in the tape rule .

  it 's a wonderful mystery , which has produced many theories , but no hard answers .

  in north america , the tortilla is often fried hard .

  you 're conscious of the fact that your feet hurt , that the city pavements are hard .

  etc . : the new york giants and mark bavaro have agreed on a financial settlement that ends hard feelings between the club and the former all-pro tight end , who was waived because of knee injuries .

  lumps of a very dark and hard ferruginous sandstone , recalling a tropical laterite , can also be found with ironstained purbeck slabs in the surrounding arable fields .

  but the state of california wants to take a long , hard look at trip-related health and accident insurance to determine if its sale to people 65 and older should be subject to greater regulation .

  the wines we tasted are some of hardest to produce , need at least 10 years or more to become drinkable and will never be cheap .

  without ever raring back and letting go with the hard stuff , harris opened the stakes for a starting job with a fine performance before a crowd of 8 , 087 .

  it 's hard for reporters to determine how taylor is , because he does n 't speak to the press .

  since mr . clark believes firmly that the chewing of hard foods helps develop healthy gums and teeth , raw vegetables and raw whole-wheat grains are handed out with fresh fruit and whole-wheat cookies at snack time in the afternoons .

  `` then it gets pretty banged up and is kind of hard to hear . ''

  a paraplegic park ranger and his climbing partner are finding their ascent of yosemite 's half dome a little harder than they expected and will take an extra day to complete the climb .

  ms . mcglade says that `` hard goods sales should continue to hold up better than apparel , '' thanks partly to the strength in new-home sales and related furnishing purchases .

  lawmakers told clifford , the ultimate washington insider , they found it hard to believe he did n 't know that the foreign-owned bank of credit and commerce international had exercised illicit control over the big u . s . bank he headed .

  a what i worry about is when economies are not robust , it is harder to get market openings .

  if someone is moving from a larger apartment to a smaller one , mr . thometz may also weed out hard cover classics that are readily available in paperback .

  in his first extended interview with reporters since taking over the party chairmanship , yeutter displayed little of the hard edge that characterized atwater 's brand of politics .

  what makes him different is his profession ; he 's a big-money ballplayer in the public eye and there are numbers , hard and fast numbers such as 21 and . 201 , that strongly suggest he 's bringing his problems to work .

  i want to thank council members alane loisel and gary mello for their hard work on the fremont city council .

  that means taking a long , hard look at your spending to see what can be cut .

  north carolina has been a leader in the policy of retreat , believing it is better to let beaches move naturally than to fight the ocean with sea walls , jetties and other hard structures .

  as they mature into adulthood , the grasshoppers develop a rock - hard exoskeleton and the ability to fly the length of a football field .

  i think it is a commitment to hard work , an aversion to shortcuts , a skepticism about utopias , an open mind , a profound humanity .

  the company stock value of one of our brokers has grown from a $ 3 , 100 contribution made on his behalf in 1985 to $ 77 , 000 six years later ; it would be hard to find a better retirement plan .

  lawyers involved in mental health issues say companies are unlikely to try to get rid of mentally ill workers before the law takes effect , in part because many of these employees have not come forward and are hard to identify .

  toys between hard covers .

  he declined to name any such stocks , but it is not hard to spot rallies among stocks that had been given up for dead .

  it 's hard sharing a demented sense of humor .

  ( box ) as the resin beads remove the minerals , they slowly get saturated with `` hard '' material .

  `` the campaign just does n 't move us , '' says mildred wortham , a 34-year-old mother of two who lives in the hard scrabble rockwell gardens housing project , where one young mother recently died of a cocaine overdose and a 13-year-old girl was stabbed and tossed from a seventh-floor window .