But, she notes, he might have sympathised with her over one big problem: the surprising difficulty of changing medical routine.
But his difficulty in giving that big speech on Europe in about a week's time is what if he's wrong on any one of those ifs?
Regardless of the amount of difficulty involved, the big four emerging markets plus South Africa said earlier this week they were considering setting up a foreign-exchange reserve pool and a currency-swap arrangement in an effort to avoid any credit crisis stemming from the advanced economies.
And restrictive labour laws make firms reluctant to take on staff to meet a big one-off order, because of the difficulty of laying workers off later.
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If analyst expectations are any guide, the big banks should be able to ride out any difficulty in their mortgage businesses with help from investment banking and other activities tied to the buoyant markets.
And a big part of the problem is that they have great difficulty finding work.
According to the Journal, the difficulty of obtaining loan files has been a big obstacle for investors trying to force issuers to repurchase bonds.
Refreshingly self-critical, the assembled masses were told of the mistakes the big N made with marketing the GameCube, and the difficulty the traditionally family-orientated company was having in appealing to modern, gore-obsessed players.
The Spanish government has found itself in financial difficulty since the 2008 global financial crisis caused a big crash in the country's over-heated property market.
The Spanish government has found itself in financial difficulty since the 2008 global financial crisis caused a big crash in the country's over-heated property market, and many fear that it will need a full bailout on top of the banking loan that has already been agreed.
Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), which has been a big momentum stock, will reveal the impact of food prices and the difficulty of expanding abroad.
"It was a big thick form, maybe 30 pages, which was filled in with great difficulty because I can barely write, I can't hold a pen properly, " he said.
For most Chinese companies, the domestic market is already so big and dynamic, the additional revenues offered by investing in smaller markets in the Gulf fail to justify the difficulty of operating there, according to Ben Simpfendorfer, an economist and author of The New Silk Road: How a Rising Arab World is Turning Away from the West and Rediscovering China.
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