"It Gets Worse, My Friend", from the Eliot prize-nominated A Rough Climate (2002), enumerates with unarguable exactness a day's worth of small blows at the hands of the mostly well-meaning, ending with the speaker, long established in the neighbourhood, being instructed in how to queue at the cheese counter.
Wren has largely met those goals in a rough climate, racking up a 14% revenue hike in 2003 and a projected 13% in 2004.
He tells me that beyond the rough climate, Alaska gets a bad rap for its crime, "but the crime here is mostly DUIs and drug abuse".
Funding cuts and a rough economic climate have resulted in more victims with fewer resources to seek assistance.
If Verizon was really into me, they would scale back the largest marketing campaign of 2010 a bit, and save me some cash in a rough economic climate.
We need to dissect the complex cocktail of grievances that has brought us this rough climate in the first place: the marginalisation of majorities whose anger, fear and perceived powerlessness is being transformed into greed, bitterness and hatred.
Since Tufted Puffins only come ashore to breed and the rough climate in the Barents Sea area allows only for maximum one molting every year, I. uriae ticks may need up to 7 years to complete its developmental cycle [33], [34].
The Cost of Action Just as there is a rough consensus among climate modelers about the likely trajectory of temperatures if we do not act to cut the emissions of greenhouse gases, there is a rough consensus among economic modelers about the costs of action.
Last year was a rough one for the climate change secretary, the Lib Dems' Ed Davey.
I think she makes a good candidate, a very interesting candidate, and I know that her opponents want to make the issue about wrestling itself, and I think that's a losing argument but it's their only argument because it's hard to refute somebody who's been so successful in a really rough economic climate.
At my request, the researcher Benjamin H. Strauss at the organization Climate Central, made a rough calculation of the number of people living within 10 meters, or 33 feet, of sea level: 710 million, or about 12 percent of the world's population.
