Word: harders
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...would the odds on the success of three-strip Technicolor have been if people had to wear specs to see Gone With the Wind or The Wizard of Oz, or the 99% of movies now shown in color? The history of mass entertainment is to make consumption easier, not harder. Until we're in the post-goggles stage of 3-D, the format will be less a dominant form of movie-watching than a theme-park attraction. (See the 50 best inventions...
...visited this region in the past, thinks the two American TV journalists were trying to report on the plight of stateless orphans, the offspring of trafficked North Korean women repatriated back to the North. "It's a mushrooming problem," says Peters, who notes that authorities have been making it harder for foreign journalists to cover the refugee issue there since the lead-up to the Beijing Olympics. He and others like him counsel journalists about the perils of interviewing defectors and navigating the border. People "unfamiliar with the terrain" could have a difficult time understanding the frontier's exact location...
...Frankham says the new limits on testing are "not necessarily bad for us." Getting as much data as possible in the shorter time available will be increasingly important, he says. But as team budgets are squeezed, "we need to be cleverer" than competitors, says Frankham. "We have to think harder and harder...
...last question was an East Room evergreen: Did the President have confidence in his ability to forge peace between Israel and the Palestinians? The answer was predictable too. Yes, said Obama, but it would be hard, and recent elections in Israel had made it harder. But then he continued on to where he had always intended to go. "If you are persistent, then these problems can be dealt with," Obama said. "That whole philosophy of persistence, by the way, is one that I'm going to be emphasizing again and again in the months and years to come as long...
...bonus scandal could make that repair job even harder than it already is. Growing doubts about the Administration's revitalization plan have now mushroomed into a full-blown credibility crisis. After all, how can Obama ask for upwards of another $750 billion for another bank bailout (as he has in his 2010 budget) and $100 billion to help the world economies, when it appears the Administration has had little control over how the banks have been spending the money thus...