Given the weak economy, moreover, hospitals would probably face a challenging environment over the next few years even if the president signed a health care bill tomorrow.
Dinner Lab, like many startups, is facing a challenging environment for startups that lately have to find their way to profitability instead of simply fund operations with venture capital.
CEO Mark Pincus has described 2013 as a "transition year" for Zynga as it continues to face a challenging environment on the Facebook platform, struggle to build its mobile revenue and deal with declining user numbers, but it's still far from certain if the transition will be a positive one.
Moreover, the survey indicated that the provision of correct diagnosis of alcohol dependence and the range of treatment are affected by the types of physicians and the patients' symptoms presented at the initial visit, thus many physicians face a challenging environment to treat and manage alcohol use disorder patients.
Borders said stores in Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand would all be closed, adding that the overseas stores faced a "challenging" retail environment in Britain, which represents roughly 70percentt of its total international sales.
OPEC has not faced such a challenging environment since at least the 1980s.
(See "Home Depot Builds In Bad Weather").. Still, Home Depot and rival Lowe's face a challenging environment, as they try to withstand the housing crisis that has limited interest in big-ticket projects around the house.
