1.   As state attorney general, Dan Morales was no virgin in the hardball world of Texas politics.

2.   But at times, Clinton appeared to be treating the interviewer as naive about the hardball world of Washington politics.

3.   Like the rest of the hardball world, he is impressed by Pedro Martinez.

4.   The Hub gave the hardball world three days of packed houses, postcard weather, and boffo baseball.

5.   They scored seven runs in the eighth and all was right with the Gotham hardball world once again.

6.   Whether John Jr. was raised in the hardball world of Kennedy family ambitions and politics would be left to his mother, and she opted out.

7.   But here in Kyoto, in the hardball world of high-stakes diplomacy, Tererei Abete has to put her faith in man.