Profit margins are down and we're all in deep doo-doo.

an eremitical life in the woods

15939 Cap somew[hat] umbon[ate] smooth livid pale, Lamel[læ] annexed flesh-colored, Stipes sold smooth somew[hat] bulbous. [Describing a species of fungus.]

Some materials have a distinctly defined yield point, e.g. most steels, whereas other materials start to plastify gradually at very low stresses.