71.   Collectors have also had a harder time collecting.

72.   Companies caught up in the benchmarking process have a harder time pulling out, and thus better reasons to keep charging fees.

73.   Companies in the throes of stock-market woes may be having a harder time keeping the employees they already have.

74.   Confidence also improved among non-manufacturers, which have been hurt by price declines and have had a harder time cutting costs than manufacturers.

75.   Clinton is likely to have a much harder time winning votes on Republican-dominated Long Island, where Lazio was born and raised.

76.   Clinton said it was clear that anyone who did not attend college for at least two years would have a harder time finding a good-paying job.

77.   Companies that can inexpensively reduce their emissions below the cap would be allowed to sell their excess permits to companies that have a harder time cutting emissions.

78.   Customers also may have a harder time finding full-size pick-up trucks and certain sport utility vehicles.

79.   Even in the life sciences, she said, where women have reached critical mass, they have a harder time than men advancing in their careers.

80.   For most of the game, the only thing Francis had a harder time making than jump shots were layups.