Apparently, the harsh prospect of being held accountable to American consumers was highly motivating -- much more so than the harshness of the foreclosures and bankruptcies endured by American homeowners, for instance, to which the mega-banks somehow managed to remain sublimely indifferent.
The dichotomy underscores the harsher prospects for companies still tied to older computer businesses.
What began as the attempted scaling of an offshore oil platform in the Pechora Sea operated by the state energy giant Gazprom had been transformed into a far harsher prospect: charged first with piracy, then with hooliganism, the group could now face seven years in prison, joining such other emblems of Moscow's iron hand as the Pussy Riot rock band and the former tycoon Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky.
A major long-term study suggests recent graduates face a much tougher jobs market and harsher economic prospects than those from a decade before.
Transparency campaigners condemned the harsh sentence in prospect for Bradley Manning, but journalists and lawyers closely associated with the trial were relieved with the acquittal for the most serious charge – that he "aided the enemy" by transmitting state secrets to WikiLeaks.
And it casts a harsh light on the prospects for the United States and Europe to cooperate on trade policy.
Speaking at the Asean conference, Mr. Ho took a harsh tone on the prospects for talks with the United States, said officials who heard him in the closed sessions.
And proponents of Uighur self-determination and many human rights advocates say that China's accusations of orchestrated terrorism are greatly exaggerated and ignore the local roots of Uighur discontent, especially poor job prospects and harsh policing.
A19 Disgraced Lawmaker Criticized President Bush and other Republican leaders, concerned that former Representative Randy Cunningham's admission that he took bribes and evaded taxes could damage the party's prospects, issued harsh denunciations of his actions.
Recently, studies inferring inbreeding using genetic marker-based estimates of genetic diversity in wild populations of spiders and marmots showed that lowered heterozygosity may interact with the environment to result in poorer fitness prospects in harsh environments [15] [17].
