Two major developments point to more protracted difficulties.
In October, Santander walked away from its agreement to acquire 316 UK branches, following protracted difficulties with technology transfer.
"Unite has repeatedly demanded action from ministers in relation to the high energy costs, the protracted difficulties experienced by Michelin in obtaining a connection for a proposed combined-heat power plant and the pressing need for capital support to modernise the plant," he said.
But education is one of the few areas where the cuts are already being felt, and education secretary Michael Gove's protracted difficulties over his axing of Labour's schools rebuilding programme forms the background to the ICM survey.
Some of this follow-up was protracted due to difficulties in contacting several participants.
Poor language skills has been related to communication difficulties, protracted resettlement and acculturation processes, and mental distress [ 27].
The protracted fight over carried interest underscores the difficulty Congress faces in trying to close tax loopholes for businesses, even at a time of sprawling budget deficits and widespread public dismay about Wall Street's influence in Washington.
The practice, called passing the trash, avoids the difficulties of criminal prosecution or protracted disciplinary proceedings.
The highest age-adjusted relative risk (RR) was found for emptying of all stools into clothing without forewarning (RR 12.7), defaecation urgency (RR 5.7), difficulty feeling the need to empty the bladder (RR 2.8), protracted genital pain (RR 5.0), pubic pain when walking indoors (RR 4.9) and erysipelas on abdomen or legs at least once during the past 6 months (RR 3.6).
I say "mostly tree-like" because recombination obviously messes things up dramatically at the tips, and because of recent work by Jeffrey Lawrence that demonstrated the difficulty (impossibility?) of establishing clean bifurcations within enteric bacteria due to protracted periods of speciation.
These hopes were partly based on difficulties with mi nority stockholders experienced in other newspaper mergers, 'notably protracted lawsuits faced by the Newhouse group as a result of its attempted acquisition of The Denver Post.
