"We are facing serious difficulties," he was quoted as saying.
That went on without challenge for more than 90 years, but by 1980, football was facing serious difficulties.
The number of movie houses has been cut by more than half, to seven (though most now have multiple screens), and the small independent art houses just off the avenue, Le Lincoln and Le Balzac, are facing serious difficulties.
"Expenditures have gone up by 50% but incomes have remained the same," Spartak Moscow owner Leonid Fedun told Russian media at the weekend, adding that five Russian Premier League teams funded by the government are facing "serious difficulties".
Thanks to Northamptonshire county council blowing up its own finances, Surrey using its muscle within the Conservative party to highlight the damage being done by cuts, and areas such as Somerset facing serious difficulties, an impression has been created that English shires are suffering the most pain under austerity.
In addition to patients facing serious difficulties in finding doctors, there are too few dispensaries, too few medical conditions covered by the program, and concerns about the ability of low income patients to pay for the medicine.
