Even as higher oil prices and hobbled Japanese production reduce growth they add to mounting inflation risks (Britain is now fretting over inflation of 4.4%).
The prospects for this year are not rosy either, as the recession looks set to hobble domestic film production.
But the integrated dinosaurs, hobbled by high production costs, are horribly uncompetitive and have remained so despite (or more likely because of) a long history of protection.
While on 'I'm Not Bossy...'... it's often a muted version of itself, hobbled by soft, shlocky production, in the wild it's lost none of its raw, gut-tugging force, unleashed to its stripping, healing full here.
First, the production was hobbled from the get-go by the hype surrounding it, which was mostly generated by those involved with the Moscow protest movement, who are eager to see signs that their rebellion is echoing anywhere outside their relatively small circle.
When Alice Cannon, a fine actress who was in the original Broadway production of "Company," hobbles across the Woodward Hall stage, there is a sense that this woman was born old and has accepted the frailties of age as just about what she deserves.
I hesitate to render a final judgment on "Kafka's Trial," because the opera was hobbled by a spectacularly stupid production, which erased the distinction between real life and fiction and buried all the characters in an onslaught of puerile sexual imagery.
"Most broadcasters are still hobbled by their commissioning and production processes, which are still linear and depend on a certain hierarchy of skills," says Adams. "There is a natural tendency to look at creating something for TV first and then add other platforms later.
The studio hasn't always been Khan's friend: her 2006 debut album, Fur and Gold, was hobbled by an over-glossy production, which left songs that sounded visceral and gripping on stage buckling under the weight of their own varnish.
It's a peculiar film, notable for some tip-top performances and handsome production design, but hobbled by narrative uncertainties – the main storyteller comes and goes, her absence from large swaths of the drama rather undermining the supposed significance of her role.
