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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.
While the trial was going on, in fact, you would have been hard-pressed to find a single reporter covering it who thought that Microsoft was going to win.
Charles Stewart Parnell, an Irish member of parliament, took up the cause, and the Land Acts, which enabled hard-pressed tenants to buy their land, were passed.
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.
You would be hard-pressed to find a more admirable enterprise.