41.   No hard data is available on whether these direct-care workers are making more or fewer mistakes with medications than nurses, according to state officials.

42.   Nobody knows for sure how much foreign debt was hedged and in the absence of hard data, investors have assumed the worst.

43.   Naturally, accusations of racism evoke strong emotions, but they must be backed by hard data, attorneys say.

44.   One board member, Ruth Palmer, expressed her frustration at the dearth of hard data to prove that there was a clear advantage to homework.

45.   Plus, there is too little hard data about the preparations by individual companies, he said.

46.   Sharp said the industry has no hard data about women cigar smokers or why they take up the practice.

47.   Soler said the study provided hard data to back up what those who work in the field of domestic violence had suspected for many years.

48.   Some believe the morphine-like substances can be as addictive as a drug, although hard data is scarce.

49.   Sports provide researchers a real-world laboratory, with hard statistical data, for studying some superstitions.

50.   Superior Court Judge Richard Chin, who has led a task force on the subject, said the first step will be collecting the hard data.