I know that the neighborhood has been getting rough. The crime has been increasing.

我知道街坊们越来越难打交道了，犯罪率也在上升。

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In the past, when the going has got rough, he has tended to shy away from taking tough decisions.

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The Rough Sleeping England 2011 Report has also shown that the Taunton Deane area, which had 12 rough sleepers in 2010, now has the highest number of rough sleepers in the West Country, compared to four people in Bath and North East Somerset, and eight in Bristol.

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But Mr Ghosn has a rough-and-ready strategy for dealing with this: he ignores them.

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