Jobs can be shed if need be, he says: 8,500 went in 1992, when Lufthansa was in deep difficulty.
In 2008, only five NATO members met a target of spending a minimum of 2 percent of gross domestic product on defense; one of them, Greece, is in deep difficulty over its debts.
But by mid-life, my personal life was in deep difficulty -- unhappy marriage, three little kids, no help, nowhere to turn.
In particular, I think of his speech before the British Parliament in 1981, in his first year as President, when to much hooting and objection, he claimed the "Soviet Union" was "in deep economic difficulty," unable to "feed its own people," and in "decay".
Some experts said Mr. Berlusconi heads into his third term in office facing deep difficulties with the Northern League, whose leader, Umberto Bossi, on hearing the early results, shouted, "The league is strong!" Mr. Bossi called for "federalism now," meaning that the north should have more say over the much larger tax revenue it produces compared with the poorer south.
However, the project runs into deeper difficulties in relation to condition (3).
"There is real suffering in France, in the provinces there are deep difficulties," the mayor added, with citizens suffering from low incomes and villages and towns struggling to afford the services they offer.
As I wrote at the time, laying out in "Obama Does Moscow, and Vice Versa" and what would prove to be Obama's deep difficulties in dealing with Russia, Obama's own scheduling had already made it clear that he wanted as little as possible to do with Putin, indeed that his administration's strategy was to build Medvedev up to ensure he could prevail over Putin in the future.
Also, "consenting" emotionally vulnerable 21-year-old interns or mature women in deep financial difficulties are oxymoronic concepts.
