Andrew Howard, from motoring organisation the AA, said times were hard for all services.
And although the economic crisis has hit financial services hard, the city as a whole has got off relatively lightly.
"The staff work phenomenally hard to deliver services to the best of their ability, " said Judith Brown from the Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
In one rather smart move, Mr Duncan Smith managed both to distance himself from knee-jerk europhobia and to show that he was thinking hard about public services.
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The way services are commissioned today fills up medium secure beds and makes it hard to expand alternative services.
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Strains on public services can sorely test the patience of locals, especially when budget cuts are making it hard to maintain such services.
Old firms find it hard to tack new services on to their existing structures.
It has moved from manufacturing to services, and services are hard territory for unions too.
There would also be greater demands on hard-pressed council services, it said.
For small and medium-sized firms such services are hard to find.
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The hard power over local services and the soft power to do deals, bang heads together and formulate a vision for the future could drive real change and economic growth outside London, he said.
Johnston would be working hard to retain the services of Smith, who he thought had proven wrong those critics who suggested that his previous titles with Rangers were only the product of high spending.
If content or services are hard to find on a website viewed through a desktop computer, and it is 80% of the time, it will be even harder to find it on a small screen, with a compact navigation system and a lot of distractions.
Many of its staff sit in offices of our biggest banks and are hard at work ensuring financial services work for everyday Americans.
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And while that approach makes financial sense, it's hard to achieve across public services during the toughest, most sustained squeeze public spending has seen.
Despite the fact that Scotland has leading experts in the condition, services can be hard to access according to James Cant, head of the British Lung Foundation for Scotland.
In recent years, while America's armed services have been hard-pressed to assemble the manpower to fight two simultaneous wars, the number of U.S. soldiers in the military prison system has fallen by 50%, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Since the banks are still offering such limited services, it is hard to evaluate them.
Without a legal framework, telecoms operators find it hard to sign deals with payment services.
It can keep their wages and prices down because it is hard for them to sell their services elsewhere.
Managers should think long and hard about the pricing of their services.
Despite what seems to be a deluge of fears surrounding computing-in-the-sky, cloud providers say they are working hard to make sure their cloud services safe.
It would be hard to find two financial-services firms with more different approaches: buzzy deal makers and traders at Bankers, stodgy commercial bankers at Deutsche.
Because the demands on soldiers are so high, the services often find it hard it to hold on to people they have trained at huge expense.
Controlling as he does only 10% of parliament's seats, and having lost the loyalty of the security services, it is hard to see how Mr Wahid imagines he can survive.
EU. The struggle to liberalise European postal services may be just as hard-fought.
Some consumer-behavior experts say it is likely the merchants who find it easiest to adopt checkout fees will be specialists and boutiques offering hard-to-find goods or services.
The other, the increasing demands placed on local authorities by the weakest and most vulnerable in the community who need their services most when times are hard.
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