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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.
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.
And racial profiling has many defenders who say it is sensible, hard-nosed policing of the sort that has led to a dramatic drop in the nation's crime rate.
Both the NYT and WP fronts carry word of the resignation of a hard-nosed American member of the U.N.'s weapons inspection team, William Ritter.
pieces paint Deng as a hard-nosed pragmatist and marvel at China's economic growth, but caution that the country is still beset by poverty, corruption, pollution, etc.