notorious
Vitamin E is notoriously hard to get from food.
The company pays notoriously low wages.
Their mining industry is notoriously dangerous.
Good statistics are notoriously hard to find.

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notoriously
Good operational measures of, and data on, asset specificity are notoriously elusive.
The scholar is compared favourably with that other notoriously frivolous and unproductive cultural figure, the poet.
And the law notoriously sustains a fair amount non-meshing, pockets of anti-coordination, and so on, so the overall picture usually looks more modular than homogeneous.
As noted below, 'social capital' has acquired a very different but notoriously contested meaning today.
The issue of nationalism alone is notoriously difficult to define and understand.
It is notoriously difficult to offer a coherent definition of "postmodernism" because of the myriad ways it has been used in the past sixty years.
Identifying sentences in conversation is notoriously problematic, but it is interesting for it to be conclusively demonstrated that there is no difficulty in identifying clauses.
For example, the copious amount of guidance that has accompanied community care legislation has been notoriously inconsistent and created problems for practitioners.
Our current transformations do not attempt to fold simplified function definitions; indeed, folding is notoriously difficult to control in automatic transformation.
It is notoriously difficult to say anything new about the nature of politics.
A functional language provides a solid basis for reasoning about rules, an aspect that is notoriously difficult to accomplish with, for example, production systems.
Unfortunately, stylistic analysis by itself is notoriously unreliable in deciding questions of authorship.
He is a notoriously skilled interrogatee, adept at turning questions to his advantage while appearing to be dutifully responsive.
The term 'political culture' is famously (or notoriously) problematic even within the camp of scholars who find the term useful.
Other problems have been notoriously resistant to attack; these usually involve some unpredictable processing order of the elements.
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