These measures include accelerating the development of small financial institutions, expanding the financing channels and increasing credit guarantee services to relieve the financing difficulties of small firms.

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Most of these will now be delayed, including the biggest and most controversial, known as Nam Theun 2, which is anyway plagued by financing difficulties and environmental criticism.

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Leah Abraham and Nino Settepani, the couple behind Ristorante Settepani that opened on Lenox a decade ago, recently nixed plans for a pizza restaurant across the street due to the economic climate and financing difficulties.

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According to the Associated Press, one anonymous insider said the private equity firms sought to squash the deal over questions about Harman's financial health, not because of any financing difficulties in a tight credit market.

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Going back to Greece, it as we know is in trouble at the moment, but if Apple were to move its headquarters there, can anyone say with a straight face that it would suffer financing difficulties in the way that its government is?

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And in the absence of an organised music industry, new bands like Kabul Dreams face difficulties in financing and producing their music.

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The difficulties that parties face in financing themselves mean that taxpayers will be asked to stump up more money for them.

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Yet, Israeli companies are having serious difficulties securing much more modest levels of financing.

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One of the greatest difficulties faced by a start-up is that financing is often done in stages, subject to meeting benchmarks.

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