All over Manhattan schools saw the inevitable about to happen, and began the hard business of closing down for the day.

"This is all about the hard business of money," he concludes.

That was a very hard business, and we had no idea what we were doing.

The Smiths were about to become involved in hard business.

By late last year, the Soviet kindness had turned to hard business.

Professional sports teams aren't just cold, hard businesses, and never have been.

It is a hard business I have got myself into.

"It's a hard business never to see his mother again."

On one side there is a state, used to the hard business of governing.

For a man in such a hard business as films, he had an extraordinarily kind nature.