Education was the worst hit sector during the violent Gorkhaland agitation of the '80s.
The worst-hit sectors in the third quarter were engineering and recruitment, while leisure enjoyed a strong performance.
One of the worst-hit sectors is big-screen flat televisions, where sales have slowed markedly, but the BRC also noted year-on-year falls in items such as shoes.
But that's not the worst-hit sector.
In Britain, the sectors worst hit by losing the link with the EU's single market would include chemicals, financial services, automative and mechanical engineering.
One of the sectors worst hit by the downturn posted its ninth straight month of rising activity in March, with the CIPS/Markit manufacturing purchasing managers index (PMI) reading beating City forecasts.
As might be expected with the talk of recession and concern about fiscal distress, financial stocks were among the worst hit of all the sectors on the S.& P. Bank of America and Citigroup were widely traded and were down more than 7 percent and nearly 4 percent, respectively.
As well as being hit by redundancy, she claimed that women would be worst hit by changes to public sector pension contributions and the pension credit.
