Sears says its site helped produce $500 million worth of store sales last year, mostly in "hard lines," like appliances and power tools, which require a good deal of research before a customer buys.
Li et al. [ 14] detected genes orthologous to puroindoline b and found that the level of starch granule-associated friabilin, which is the final product of the genes, was high in soft triticale lines and very low in hard lines.
We have a better leading indicator in hard-line items -- appliances, washers, dryers, refrigerators, ranges.
In hard-line Republican states such as Texas and Louisiana, which have leaders who are implacably opposed to the law, the outlook is much less favorable.
Max Castro, a sociologist at the University of Miami, said: "These are people who do not participate in hard-line political organizations.
In contrast, Cruel Intentions, a glossy Manhattan high-school version of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, revels in hard-line sexual political and aspirational lifestyles.
Taliban commanders and spokesmen have publicly disclaimed interest in joining the government in hard-line statements, and say that they have no reason to do so because they believe they are winning the fight against Western and Afghan forces.
Mr. Rafsanjani was immediately attacked in hard-line newspapers, and state-run television broadcast a long program countering his claims, accusing "some" of insinuating the idea of duality in the stances of Ayatollah Khomeini.
They brought a large pair of wire-cutters and started snipping (pictured above).By then the Hungarians had been working with the West Germans against their supposed comrades in hard-line East Germany for years.
The Middle East scholar Martin Kramer, a biographer of Sayyid Muhammad Fadlallah, told me that he has sensed a shift in hard-line Shiite thinking in the past twenty years.
Retail and related-services sales fell 1.8% despite growth in hard-line appliances and its Sears's automotive centers.
