41.   The hard reality of this decade is that public needs not considered absolutely essential to community welfare and efficiency probably will go unmet except by private-sector efforts.

42.   The painful choices confronting Zeiss reflect hard economic realities of German unification -- a process that is leaving many German workers disillusioned, jobless and longing for former days.

43.   These days, South Africans are acutely aware of the hard realities they face in remaking a society that systematically kept the majority of the population uneducated and poor.

44.   These numbers could improve later this month, when new economic forecasts are due, but the hard reality remains.

45.   They simply ran up against hard political reality.

46.   This is a hard reality for many pundits and political writers to accept.

47.   Uniting them is the hard reality that approval ratings for Clinton have soared during the impeachment process while those of the Republican Party have plunged.

48.   By the time the story of Cain and Abel is broached, this multi-faceted book about the hard realities of human life are all too clearly set.

49.   Dole said dealing with disasters taught her the need to focus on the hard realities of food production and distribution.

50.   Robert Korengold, a retired senior U.S. information officer, laughs bitterly as he looks back at what he calls hard realities of foreign entanglements.