Catching food in the Cretaceous period was tough enough but now factor in that you are moving at 20 mph underwater with a pair of tweezers for a beak!
It's come about because of a variety of factors: tough economic times, political and economic polarization, and a deterioration of civic engagement.
He said that the Arctic's tough environment, with factors like poor visibility and cold weather, could cause logistical problems that hamper the traditional oil spill tactics like using booms to control the spill.
But Michelin wants untravelled Americans to love them too, and here it faces a tough sales job.The French factor aside, Michelin has a daunting rival in Zagat, a home-grown publishing house which compiles its guides and ratings from thousands of reviews sent in by readers.
The WSJ reports that its only chance is correcting its past financial statements by December 14, a tough deadline when you factor in getting an auditor's signature.
Pegging the increase in cephalopod numbers to any one factor is tough, although the 60-year timescale points to human influence: Natural ocean cycles are shorter, and so can't be responsible.
But that doesn't factor in tougher Basel III capital rules.
After three decades of observing Kenya's runners firsthand, he has heard all the theories about why they are pre-eminent distance runners: increased oxygen-carry capacity from living at altitude; a diet rich in protein and carbohydrates; genetic factors; a tough, disciplined way of rural living.
Rather than invent new online security systems for the public sector, why not use those already developed by banks, as in Scandinavia?Interestingly, the examples of good e-government in our special report have a common factor: a tough-minded leader at the top, willing to push change through against the protests of corrupt or incompetent vested interests.
Today it is 18% and continues to diminish largely as a result of a higher local Muslim birth-rate and emigration owing to tough economic conditions and factors related to the continuing Palestinian- Israeli conflict.
