It's mid-winter in South Africa - a season of clear skies, bone-chilling temperatures, and deep, tetchy gloom.
It may be a bit tetchy for KPMG to be a creditor and working on the wind-down.
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Oil markets have been tetchy of late, seeing sharp upticks on the back of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
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The second half was a tetchy affair, with the referee's whistle preventing the game getting into any kind of rhythm.
But some in the GOP conference are still tetchy about entitlement reform, even if Medicare continues to grow at 6.2%.
So Jack, a doughy, sardonic carnivore, is saddled with a tetchy lesbian vegan who eats dried banana out of a plastic bag.
Waiting in the final is Tomas Berdych, who beat a tetchy Juan Martin del Potro 7-6 (5), 7-6 (6) earlier in the day.
So saving Italy and Spain could create a sizeable headache for France (which may explain why President Sarkozy seems to be a bit tetchy).
When asked yesterday by a reporter if placing her under house arrest last week actually increased her popularity, the general gave a tetchy response.
Even Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's president and usually a friendlier host than Mr Putin, grew tetchy at a joint Kremlin press conference with Mr Cameron.
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On her seven-country tour of Africa, a tetchy Hillary Clinton snapped at a student who asked her what Mr Clinton thought about a loan to Congo.
But now tequila itself has become the subject of a tetchy trade dispute one that looks as if it will not be settled over a couple of shorts.
Labour would now oppose it (Ed Miliband is greener than his predecessor, Gordon Brown) as would the Liberal Democrats, causing more instability in an already tetchy partnership.
Earlier this month the powerful National Committee on American Foreign Policy issued a tetchy statement demanding that the peace process be speedily concluded with a start to decommissioning.
This reverses a decision made by his tetchy predecessor, F.
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He and fellow artists are central to a slender but persistent protest movement that is making the government tetchy in the run-up to parliamentary elections due later this year.
And so, in due course, the alien craft arrive: tetchy pilotless drones in the shape of pizzas, from which individual slices peel off to launch spicy, deep-crust attacks on defenseless mortals.
But in the midst of a tetchy discussion, one voice did defend the Western understanding of democracy and civil liberty, and indeed the compatibility of those principles with the devout practice of Islam.
Martin Freeman stars as Arthur Dent, your basic tetchy Brit, who is dragged along by his un-British indeed, unhuman friend Ford Prefect (Mos Def) on a trip through some of the more risible highlights of deep space.
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