While American cities large and small are grappling with budget deficits of historic proportions — laying off teachers and police officers and closing libraries — the town of Golden Beach, Fla., is doing fine, thank you.
Ten minutes later, all 30 are in small groups, grappling with applied problems about lactate fermentation.
Several European parliaments have yet to approve their shares of a 440 billion euro bailout fund that is now all but officially acknowledged to be too small to grapple with the full scale of the problem.
A small boy grapples with a dolphin above the entrance to Smithfield General Market in the City of London, blissfully unaware that he'll soon have bigger fish to contend with.
As respondents in this small study grappled with explanations for their own and others' behaviour they focussed on the practical consequences leading to a greater concern over explanations based on nature than the more familiar ones based on a complex web of environmental factors.
Trapani is one of the small business owners grappling with a widening gap between staffing desires and the qualifications of the available workforce.
And that women's sport generally will feel the wider benefits of a small but significant grappling hook across the divide.
Steven Cooper, managing director for local business banking at Barclays, said some small business were grappling with the "emotive point" that their businesses were not going to generate the cash they once did.
To do so requires breaking into locked barns at 3 a.m., tracking down and interviewing reluctant workers, and -- no small point -- grappling with one's own self-loathing for ever having participated in such a system as a mindless eater.
He had great difficulty in establishing the depth reached by living coral, as pieces were hard to break off and the small anchors, hooks, grappling irons, and chains they used were all snapped off by the swell as soon as they tried to pull them up.
