We think standards have dropped".
"The standards have dropped lower and lower, as to what's allowed.
And then when Gary Speed took over I think he realised that standards had dropped off the field.
In addition, the financial reforms he pushed through to keep international loans flowing caused considerable pain among working Turks, who have watched helplessly as living standards have dropped sharply.
Christel Bienstein, a nursing scientist from the University of Witten/ Herdecke said many German care homes had reached breaking point due to lack of staff, and that care standards had dropped as a result.
In a peculiar turn of events, these marquee dramas have also been largely loved by the critics, which either means that critical standards have dropped or TV is getting better.
In the neo-classical town hall on the isle's picturesque seafront, Dimitris Mourtzis, the local mayor, reckons that living standards have dropped by 35% since the crisis erupted.
"The prestige of scholars and scientists has been so diminished and the living standards have dropped so low that the only way to survive is to go to the West, which is so humiliating," he said of his day job in the markets.
In a country where the unemployment rate is 8.3percentnt and living standards have dropped sharply since the recession began, in late 2007, the underlying logic of a Romney candidacy has always been fairly compelling: with things going wrong, here is a practical businessman, well-tested in the public sector as well as the private sector, who can use his expertise to turn things around.
In bad news for consumers, the judging panel said standards had dropped this year, partly due to the rising cost of ingredients such as dried fruit and butter, which had prompted supermarkets to use cheaper, lower quality ingredients to keep prices low.
