1.  American firms know very well that China has never been an easy place to do business.

2.  Augusta is not an easy place to win your first major, but a dozen players have the opportunity.

3.  A mall, of course, is an easy place to learn how to spend money, not how to save and invest it.

4.  Acknowledging this reality can help you identify easy places to trim payroll in a downturn.

5.  After the Kansas City game, Oakland has to play in Denver, never an easy place for a road team.

6.  But Florida was not an easy place to be on the lam.

7.  But the network is trapped in an increasingly frantic holding pattern, and there is no easy place for this prize possession to land.

8.  But the comfortable lobby is an easy place to meet other voyagers.

9.  Certainly, the Primorye region has been no easy place to practice journalism.

10.  Colombia has rarely been an easy place to live.