But while those events have cast a pall over much of the capital, they seem to have caused particularly difficult times recently for Assembly Democrats and their leader, Speaker Sheldon Silver.
The Guevaras -- and countless others struggling to provide for their families but facing a loss of income -- have found that Neediest Cases has helped them survive particularly difficult times.
These are particularly difficult times for the Mets because of their performance on the field, the overall economy and their owners' ongoing legal battle with Irving H. Picard, the trustee for the victims of the Bernard L. Madoff Ponzi scheme.
These are particularly difficult times for people in their 20s, who had a 12.5 percent unemployment rate in September, compared with 9.2 percent for the general population on a nonseasonally adjusted basis, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Although these are particularly difficult times, much creative thinking is going into challenging such difficulties, for example, the work of the Campaign To End Loneliness and the recent launch of the findings of the Big Lottery funded project Shaping Our Age.
The child stars who had particularly difficult times adjusting to adulthood "were never encouraged to do anything else".
