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Example sentences for: hardball

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Matthews' idea of "hardball" (aside from titling his show and his book identically, so every pause for a commercial embeds a book plug) seems to be to yell four half-coherent questions in a row in a querulous, Bostonian tenor.
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On the LAT opinion page, James DeLong, general counsel for the National Legal Center, writes that Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's findings of fact offer much proof that Microsoft deals rough with competitors, but virtually none that these hardball tactics harm consumers.
While you were writing yesterday's last dispatch, I was eating noodles and steamed vegetables from a palatable take-out joint in Tribeca, watching Hardball , and preparing to tuck my almost-5-year-old son into bed.