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  • Our view on hard-times budgeting: States releasing prisoners early may pay for it later: Monday's editorial on prison budgets should have said that Wisconsin plans to cut the use of real-time electronic monitoring of certain sex offenders in favor of less expensive tracking technology, not eliminate the system.

    Corrections and clarifications archive 2010

  • Certainly Williams's influence – the deep blue tonality, the wordbreaks that are half hiccup, half yodel – runs wide and deep through Moore's work, whether in a jaunty lovesong like I'm Gonna Tell You Something or the wry hard-times reportage of I'm Not Broke, But I'm Badly Bent.

    Lattie Moore obituary 2010

  • LICHTMAN: Well, it ` s not surprising that in our consumer culture and in this hard-times economy, that people are going to try to take advantage of the Obama image and even Obama ` s wonderful two little girls.

    CNN Transcript Jan 26, 2009 2009

  • In some gritty trailer parks in a hard-times corner of New Hampshire there were the most enthusiastic voters!!

    Election Central Morning Roundup 2009

  • Not far away, Mr. Paterson was busy being a hard-times governor.

    Paterson Teeters, and Cuomo Shoves 2009

  • The plush hotel is offering a hard-times rate of as little as $239 per night.

    Luxury On the Edge 2009

  • Is this a hard-times financial cut-back, like fewer corporate jets and smaller bonuses for billionaires?

    Tallulah Morehead: The Survivor Tocantins Diet: Cut Out Candy 2009

  • Not far away, Mr. Paterson was busy being a hard-times governor.

    Paterson Teeters, and Cuomo Shoves 2009

  • In a new hard-times economy, however, in which taxpayer dollars are likely to continue to pour into the Pentagon, could it instead be a harbinger of the future?

    Nick Turse: A Recipe For Corporate Success in Tough Times? 2009

  • Laugh if you will, but this hard-times mall in Weymouth, Mass., just south of Boston, represents one small way retailers are trying to stay alive in recession-wracked New England.

    Where The Price Is Always Right 2008

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