As one reporter for Forbes put it, "The fee environment worsened for bank customers in virtually every way possible in the first half of 2012".
In addition, the uncertainty in the grid environment worsens this problem.
"As the communities' living environments worsen because of [oil company] equipment failures and oil released as part of the refining process, fishing and farming livelihoods deteriorate.
At the time the company said that it would take "appropriate action to protect ongoing profitability" if the economic environment worsened.
Banks' balance-sheets may be difficult to understand but insurers can be mind-bogglingly complex too.Insurers also have a track record of fouling up when the economic environment worsens.
The whole world ecological environment worsens, and low-carbon economical and sustainable development becomes the general trend.
Aftereffects were also seen in experiment 3 and 4. Note however, that although subjects achieved the desired performance in the altered environment (at the end of state B), the return to the baseline environment caused worsening of performance (beginning of state C) that only gradually returned to its original baseline.
Clarkson posted a 9% rise in full-year pre-tax profits on the back of a challenging economic environment and worsening debt market.
"The economic environment is worsening and consumers are becoming more conservative," said Junichi Saeki, a senior analyst at International Data's subsidiary in Japan, Asia's largest market for technology products.
The picture is grimmer in America, where concerns about unemployment are greater and consumer confidence is badly dented, but the economic environment is worsening fast in Britain too.
In particular, he contends that this hostile environment is worsening "as film criticism written by passionately engaged people with actual knowledge of film history has gradually faded from the scene".
