1.   Companies want proof that diversity training makes them more profitable and productive, but no hard data exists.

2.   It will produce the hard data needed to analyse resource utilisation and will trigger an alarm mechanism allowing managers to control access.

3.   The skill of research is in accessing fundamental points quickly and substantiating them with hard data.

4.   Although hard data to support this belief will not be available for quite some time, anecdotes about declining sales at a variety of American companies are spreading.

5.   Another juror wanted to know whether the study of sleep disorders relied heavily on speculation rather than hard scientific data.

6.   And while there are no hard data that show bullying on the increase, schools need to devise better ways to address it.

7.   At the least, hard data can often yield considerable savings.

8.   At the same time, the new fungal family tree is helping overturn an evolutionary truism, one untested until relatively recently by hard data.

9.   Because adoptee behavior is an intensely emotional issue with little hard data, that question has generated a hot debate among families and professionals.

10.   Bolger said researchers had no hard data on how much lead might actually be in maple syrup.