He said the bank had decided in late 2007 to rein in lending, a policy that proved "a hard pill to swallow" for some executives at the bank.

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Translating medical research into practice is never easy, but Dr. Ben Abella, a co-author on the Circulation paper and the clinical research director of the Center for Resuscitation Science, says that hypothermia is an especially hard pill for some to swallow.

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Now, it might seem crazy that U.S. taxpayers would be called upon to bail out, you know, the Royal Bank of Scotland, or UBS. But Secretary Paulson says, you know, these banks do a lot of business in the U.S., they employ a lot of people here, but you can expect that that will be a hard pill for a lot of Americans to swallow.

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