We have been directly affected, with the children's father suffering mental health difficulties resulting in two weeks away from home.
At 3 p.m. a power generator went off-line for difficulties resulting in the loss of 500 megawatts of electricity.
Mr. Roth emphasized that the move was critical to helping Switzerland "weather the economic difficulties resulting from the anticipated global economic slowdown in the months ahead".
With some regret, he said the budgetary difficulties resulting from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks could delay his efforts to raise teacher and police pay closer to suburban levels.
In Germany, a dismissal ban prevents redundancies for pregnant employees except in rare cases, such as gross misconduct by the worker, or the employer getting into severe financial difficulties resulting in multiple job losses.
And Soaring Over the Horizon, a flight simulator that whisks riders to world monuments like the Eiffel Tower, was having some technical difficulties, resulting in four-hour lines at one point.
Among the techniques identified as dangerous in the risk assessment is moving a child through a doorway while wearing a waist restraint belt, for which there is a three out of five chance of suffering breathing difficulties resulting in catastrophic harm.
Yet even as euro-zone tensions ease, credit difficulties resulting from deleveraging remain, impairing recovery.The Treasury is trying to resolve this problem with a £40 billion ($62 billion) loan-guarantee scheme, through which the government backs bank loans to small firms.
It illustrates some of the implementation difficulties resulting from conflicting interests of the various user groups.
PS- Due to some technical difficulties resulting from live blogging in the Mojave, the video interview we took is FUBAR at the moment, but we'll see what we can do to fix that once we get back to LAX.
Google Reader, the market leading RSS reading platform according to some reports, appears to have suffered from technical difficulties resulting in feeds not refreshing from around 11pm US PST Sunday.
