hassle \hassle\ n. 1. An inconvenience caused by difficulties encountered trying to accomplish a task; as, finding a parking place in midtown is always a hassle.
Syn: fuss, trouble, bother. [WordNet 1.5]
2. disorderly fighting; an angry dispute or disturbance. [WordNet sense 2]
"That could be a major hassle for Carbide as it restructures," said Patricia O'Brien, a chemical industry analyst with Anantha Raman & Co., Parsippany, N.J.
Consumer Network Inc., a Philadelphia market research firm, recently asked 400 people to comment on refunds; nearly half complained about the hassle of saving receipts and removing proofs of purchase from packages.
'He's amazing', says Mr Robinson. 'He's just like one of us, he knows what kind of hassle we put up with.' Others doubt Mr Souter rose to become chairman of a business with a turnover of nearly Pounds 200m a year by being one of the lads.
Then I thought: I don't want that kind of hassle in the business; I'm going to die soon anyway." He was out sick for a few days, and he was more relaxed when he returned.
'There is always some hassle with the format.'
It can borrow in the commercial paper market quickly, with relatively little administrative hassle and at rates comparable to ordinary bank borrowing.
Many consumers and businesses don't even know they can rent a PC to alleviate peak workloads, test new hardware options and avoid the hassle of carrying a machine on business trips, according to PC rental companies.
A local career woman in her late 30s decided she wanted a baby without the hassle of finding a suitable partner.
The two have been unable to settle their dispute out of court, although both say they don't need the hassle of the embarrassing legal battle.
"To avoid a hassle," the accompanying jingles advises, "phone first."
The town's postmaster isn't taking sides, but said mail delivery hasn't been a hassle with the Bledsoes or any of the town's other six people who have similar names.
Ten million dollars wouldn't be worth all this hassle and all the stress." Linda Chaney Paulsen, whose $162,000 counterclaim against the comedian was rejected, was not in court Wednesday either.
Parking, meanwhile, is a mounting hassle at many airports.
"I don't think many people will go through the hassle for $50," Brady said. "Probably half of them are going to end up buying a Chrysler.
"I think they're appealing for a number of reasons," Laird said. "The turtles live their lives with the philosophy that they don't want to hassle anybody and they don't want to be hassled themselves.
Under the proposal, any company licensed to sell life insurance anywhere in the community would be allowed to offer the same product throughout the EC, without further bureaucratic hassle.
He said the company decided to settle the matter to avoid the cost and hassle of litigation.
Even crossing town is a hassle: Cars have to pass through five checkpoints, manned by armed Kuwaiti soldiers who continue to arrest suspected Iraqi collaborators.
"It's a hassle, but skiing roped is the only way to go up there," Howerton says. "It's a place where you have to be very careful." Time is on Peter Noone's mind these days.
There's the hassle of going back to the doctor's office.
The rates of interest available on current accounts have dwindled to paltry levels and can be beaten easily elsewhere (as David Barchard shows on the opposite page). The problem is that changing accounts involves a lot of hassle.
And pension funds must file separate tax returns for income from partnerships, a hassle many prefer to avoid.
Would-be passengers learned firsthand the hassle of going places during an airline strike, particularly in Eastern's hometown at the height of the Caribbean cruise trade and South Florida's tourist season.
Why not? "I don't really want to get into a big hassle with the other people," he says. "But ABC News just feels that this is not what we want to do.
It is understood that teachers will not demand much of students if students, in turn, do not hassle the teachers.
"We're really just putting our toes in the water right now," he said. "What we've found surprising is a lot of companies don't want to go into Japan; they see it as a hassle." The company also is making a move in the retail market.
And they are doing it, apparently, without too much hassle from Brussels. It made me wonder if a touch of Italian-style chaos in regulation-ridden Britain would not be preferable to our national compulsion to obey rules.
He also complains that the digital wardrobe is too much of a hassle to wear, adding: "The pressure on the technology is to make it unencumbering." People are listening.
"You want to hassle this doctor," Justice Antonin Scalia said. "You want to stick your thumb in his eye.
You guys go buy the tickets, get babysitters, get your outfits ready and hassle the traffic and come to see us," she said. "I think the least we can do when you come to our hometown is to show up." Pride manned a gazebo to greet his fans.