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the team's hard-nosed coach doesn't make exceptions for anybody
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Its success requires being a place where people want to belong—and, for all Costco’s hard-nosed pursuit of low prices and high quality, such a desire has rested on an elusive sense of the company as a force for good in the world.
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Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Hock is way too stringent and hard-nosed to work with pie-in-the-sky companies.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2025
Hegseth went on to announce an understated but crucially important set of changes aimed at empowering hard-nosed leaders – and giving them chances to learn from their failures.
—Davis Winkie, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
Starting running back Chuba Hubbard, a hard-nosed player with a knack for breaking tackles, represented Carolina’s surest path to an upset.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 11 Oct. 2025
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Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Hock is way too stringent and hard-nosed to work with pie-in-the-sky companies.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2025
Hegseth went on to announce an understated but crucially important set of changes aimed at empowering hard-nosed leaders – and giving them chances to learn from their failures.
—Davis Winkie, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
Starting running back Chuba Hubbard, a hard-nosed player with a knack for breaking tackles, represented Carolina’s surest path to an upset.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 11 Oct. 2025
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“Hard-nosed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard-nosed. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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