As Alan Blinder, former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, wrote in "Hard Heads, Soft Hearts," "Tariffs and quotas are often politically popular because they impose diffuse and subtle costs on the many to pay for concentrated and highly visible benefits for the few".
1965-1966 (mini Sindy): 27 centimeter (10.6 in) tall, hard head (often wobbles) and "Made in Hong Kong" on her waist; her legs and arms won't bend.
Yet her songs ride sleek, complex studio grooves that draw from all over Africa and beyond — Nigeria, Congo, Senegal, the Caribbean — to find pleasure in hard-headed resilience.
Practically, that means making the case against spending cuts not only in the compassionate language of care for those who lose out, but also in hard-headed terms about what makes sense for the British economy.
He sees the key to Sony's triumphs and setbacks in the "skein of personal relationships" at the company's pinnacle rather than in hard-headed calculation of the bottom line.
Instead, we are responding to people's concerns in hard-headed fashion: recognising how immigration has helped our country as a whole but setting out effective measures to prevent the undercutting of pay or loosening the ties that bind our communities together.
Bill Capacchione — proudly noting that his surname in Italian means hard head — came upon Hosea's tackling camps and became a quick convert.
If so, the fact to point to is that Britain in this recession is still likely to enjoy a lower unemployment rate than France or Germany in their boom.A hard head, a steady policy, a determination to control inflation: that is what it will take to bring an end to boom and bust.
In 1987 Blinder wrote, "Hard Heads, Soft Hearts: Tough-Minded Economics for a Just Society".
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