TONY HAWKINS, an economist in Zimbabwe, where a shortage of coins for making change is complicating day-to-day shopping.
Buying a phone service for the home is getting complicated these days.
Working out what to watch, when to watch, how to watch and which supplier to watch it with is rather more complicated these days.
"A lot of advertising is getting too complicated these days," says P. J. Pereira, chief creative officer at the agency, "especially when you talk about" uncomplicated products like snacks.
And that type of behavior, even if it is complicated these days by new technology, new social pressures and new slang expressions, is surely as old as the hills.
Because that kind of holiday makes me so tired that I eventually end up living entirely on Red Bull – which stops me sleeping – to get through the complicated, nervy days of doing vaguely media-related things – which mean I need sleep – and the continuing novel-tinkering – which means I really need sleep..
It's hard to imagine a more American list of nominees than Up in the Air, Precious, Julie & Julia, It's Complicated, 500 Days of Summer, The Hangover, The Blind Side, Crazy Heart, The Proposal, The Informant, The Messenger – all stories that essentially trade in Stateside experiences and mores.
"It is not very complicated these days to have a credit-card or a mobile-banking platform .In some respects, African banks are gaining a leg up on international rivals as they install brand new computer systems from scratch, without having to patch together costly legacy systems that have been around since the 1960s.
"Relationships are complicated these days," says Katerina.
