Mr. Bhandari apparently found the pace rough.
The Labor Department said first-time claims for state unemployment benefits, a rough guide to the pace of layoffs, fell more than expected to 353,000 last week, matching a nearly three-year low hit in early November.
First-time applications for state unemployment insurance -- a rough guide to the pace of layoffs -- dropped to 378,000 in the week ended Dec. 21, from a revised 438,000 in the previous week, the agency said.
The report, carried out by Heriot-Watt University and the University of York for the charity, suggested there was an upward trend of "visible" forms of homelessness over the last year, including rough sleeping, but the pace of the increase had slowed.
In the video for "Losing My Religion" — the song that would finally make R.E.M. a household name, even in my own rural Midwestern house — Michael Stipe spends the first couple of minutes slouched in a chair and pacing the rough wooden floor of a big, empty room.
And, more likely than not, they will dutifully clear a place in their hearts for "Rogue One," a swiftly paced, rough-and-ready entertainment that, in anticipating the canonical events of "A New Hope," manages the tricky feat of seeming at once casually diverting and hugely consequential.
These political thresholds are based on work by my colleague Nate Silver, who suggests that 150,000 jobs a month is the rough dividing line between the pace that helps and hurts an incumbent.
In the first two sets of the week, on Tuesday, he and his trio were getting the kinks out, still addressing rough patches in sound and pacing.
Among the extras on the Kings of the Wild Frontier box set, there's an astonishing clip of Adam and the Ants at the height of their teenybopper fame, favouring their audience with a lurid, filthy, snail's-pace song about rough sex called Physical (You're So).
The first signs that England might no longer be the pushover of old came at Edgbaston towards the end of the 2004 season when, in the semi-final of the Champions Trophy, Steve Harmison's pace and bounce roughed up the bully-boy Hayden and forced him back into his crease from his habitual camp a yard down the pitch.
