Raising funds will not be easy, particularly in today's tougher financial environment, analysts say.

Yet despite the tight financial environment, we have continued to raise the bar on quality and creativity in our services.

In today's competitive financial environment, we're friends indeed - the friends you need.

Companies generally contend that the funding requirements are out of step with the current financial environment.

It follows from this that some national legal and financial environments are actually too good to last.

But just the fact that this decline can be contemplated shows how much the financial and economic environment has changed over the last few years.

Certainly part of the problem is a legal and financial regulatory environment that no individual can understand.

"While our 2001 business plan assumed a challenging financial environment, the economic situation has deteriorated more than expected."

This change of financial environment had profound economic effects.

A. Teachers' union controls an entire financial environment relative to the state.