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And while I sewed my cheap holokus on that crazy machine, he bought land with the money — the upper Nahala lands, you know — a bit at a time, each purchase a hard-driven bargain, his face the very face of poverty.

ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010

Colleagues and friends say the 61-year-old Mr. Akerson is a hard-driven operator who will shake up GM's sometimes staid culture and push the company toward sustained profitability.

GM's New CEO Pushes for Results 2010

On November 4, 2008, a man of African descent, Barack Hussein Obama, culminated a disciplined, creative, attention-to-detail, heavily-financed, hard-driven campaign, winning the improbable prize -- the presidency of the United States of America.

Barack Obama Wins! Why Are Black Americans Crying? 2008

Talley Beatty's once dramatically colored and hard-driven 1959 suite of dances called "The Road of the Phoebe Snow" (to the jazz of Ellington and Billy Strayhorn) was another of the season's revivals.

Two Modern Dance Revivals 2007

Nobody knows so well as he does the difficulties which beset this hard-driven Confederacy.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

Nobody knows so well as he does the difficulties which beset this hard-driven Confederacy.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

Nobody knows so well as he does the difficulties which beset this hard-driven Confederacy.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

Nobody knows so well as he does the difficulties which beset this hard-driven Confederacy.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

Nobody knows so well as he does the difficulties which beset this hard-driven Confederacy.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

That is not boyish at all; that is the hard-driven, jaded literary fancy at work.

Letters to Dead Authors 2006