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Reference-style cookbooks, such as Fannie Farmer, range fairly broadly over the American basics, but if you want to get higher-end than that, you're hard-pressed to find anything but books devoted to individual cuisines.
The subtext is that this may be the only real-income increase hard-pressed workers will get.
Not beloved by his people, Milosevic might be hard-pressed to retain power even with the support of his secret police, political cronies, and state-controlled media.
You would be very hard-pressed to find someone who could argue with a straight face, pace Richard Brookhiser on George W. Bush's future prospects, that it's precisely because Jack Welch isn't that smart that he's done such a good job at GE.
Even if the funding mechanism is upheld, legal-services groups will be hard-pressed to meet their needs because of low interest rates, according to the American Bar Association.