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With business savvy, personal charm, and Microsoft-style hard-nosed determination, he mastered the horrors of magazine economics, learned to tolerate the eccentricities of journalists, and set Slate on the path to success.
The case for not acting until you have to was put most vividly by Senate Assistant Majority Leader Don Nickles of Oklahoma, in a remark that also captures the hard-nosed attitude regarding humanitarian concerns.
The top national story at the Washington Post is President Clinton's hard-nosed self-defense at his first press conference in months.
To see why spinning really should be eliminated, you have to look at the question from a hard-nosed efficiency angle.
His Prime Minister, Count Camillo Cavour, a hard-nosed political realist, won over moderate left-wing support for a program of free-trade capitalism and large-scale public works construction.