And it has just suffered a double blow, of so far uncertain severity.
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The only positive result of this double blow is that inflationary pressures should be reduced.
Scotland made a decent start to their chase, reaching 20 in the fourth over, before Bhatti struck a double blow.
New Zealand suffered another double blow following the tea interval with Ryder (24) and Brendon McCullum (three) leg-before to Johnson and Clark.
There is more sympathy for pensioners, who face a double blow from a freeze in pensions and the impact of tax rises.
Hurricane Katrina dealt a double blow to the Oreck Corporation.
Having to pay for emission allowances up front in an auction, as you suggest, while also having to pay for these new plants would be a double blow for customers.
The double blow for the Dragons is that the four of their players who have been selected for Wales' summer tour to North America will now have to withdraw from the national squad.
After all, Europe's steel makers are enduring a double blow: prices were already low thanks to sluggish European demand in recent years, but they have been dragged down further by cheap imported steel from Asia and Eastern Europe.
Steyn's thumping penalty from 66 metres cut Leinster's lead to 17 points and the home side then suffered a double blow on 57 minutes when VuliVuli scored a glorious individual try and O'Driscoll appeared to pull a hamstring in attempting to halt the Fijian.
Pool enjoyed a period of dominance as the Bluebirds tried to come to terms with their double blow, but Stephen Crainey shot wide and DJ Campbell, who scored a hat-trick in the play-off semi-final second leg against Nottingham Forest, failed to connect with a precise low cross.
The double-blow will add to manager Paulo Sousa's midfield woes with Joe Allen, Andrea Orlandi and Jordi Lopez already sidelined.
Chelsea's response to this blow, however, was to double their lead.
When the memory returns, it's like a blow to the stomach that sometimes leaves me bent double.
Last year, despite plenty of talk about "tightening, " Chinese banks lent nearly RMB 8 trillion, almost double the level of any other year before their unprecedented RMB 10 trillion blow-out in 2009.
This would be a severe blow to an ambitious aviation industry that has seen annual passenger numbers double to 8m over the past seven years, the crashes notwithstanding.
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