Iran's internal crisis also paralysed decision-making in Tehran and so killed a confidence-building deal that might have created more time for nuclear diplomacy.
And when crisis hits, decision-making shifts to a tiny handful of people at treasuries and central banks who can spend or create money.
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Thursday's crisis meeting deferred a decision which could involve the prospect of putting the enterprise into administration.
Midsize brokerage Raymond James Financial says it was planning on converting itself into a bank holding company, but the global financial crisis helped catalyze the decision.
They blamed the global economic crisis and Germany's decision to phase out nuclear power in the aftermath of the Fukushima accident in Japan.
But there was a crisis situation, and a decision had to be made as to whether or not we would allow General Motors and Chrysler, two of the Big 3, to essentially liquidate and cost up to a million jobs in the United States.
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Capriles expressed concern about unrest or political crisis in the absence of a decision by the high court.
As the Netanyahu government sought to understand how a routine meeting of the board became an international story, many officials alleged that Kadima had colluded with the Obama administration to exploit the board's decision to provoke a crisis in US-Israel relations.
You know the occasions when only a top-down decision will do: times of crisis, high risk or high conflict.
He said his decision on how to handle the crisis was fair and just, and kept the country's national interest in mind.
"I think this decision puts the judicial system in a crisis, and it's a message to the constitutional court, " he said.
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Last week, Italy announced the naval officers would not be returning to India as planned, a decision that led to an escalating diplomatic crisis.
Arab League ministers are meeting in Cairo on Sunday to discuss the crisis in Syria, following the league's decision to suspend its observer mission in the country last month.
Fiat has been suffering from a decision taken in the midst of the financial crisis: to hit the brakes on its investment in developing new cars.
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And we were forced to take those steps largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve.
The Brawn team raced as Honda last season but secured their survival only at the beginning of this month following Honda's decision to quit F1 because of the global financial crisis.
In addition, the press corps did not have an on-camera briefing, or an off-camera gaggle, with you yesterday to ask the White House about its decision-making process during this major foreign policy crisis.
The state-owned Rossiyskaya Gazeta says that France's "sudden" decision to intervene in Mali is what sparked the hostage crisis.
Ackermann and other EU bank CEOs are playing a leading role in the decision making process for the Greek and other PIIGS debt crisis.
The argument for waiting is that, by next month, the Bank's policymakers will have a new set of economic forecasts to guide their decision - and perhaps a better sense of where the crisis in the Eurozone is heading.
Since the financial crisis struck in 2008, CEOs have sought to improve collaboration and decision making, recognizing that a strong culture is "a critical component of their long-term success, " says Nick Neuhausel, a partner at consulting firm Senn Delaney, which advised Dynegy.
China is the world's second-largest economy (by PPP) and still growing fast, with an increasing impact both regionally and globally. (Just think of the importance of Beijing's decision not to devalue the yuan following the 1997 financial crisis.) The country is a nuclear power and a permanent member of the U.N.
Now, at the beginning of this crisis, when we were in transition, we could have made a decision.
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When there is no crisis, or when there is little or no paradigm change, the Japanese decision-making process is not a problem.
As the eurozone's two biggest economies - and biggest contributors to its bailout funds - Germany and France are key decision-makers over the strategy supposed to pull Europe out of crisis.
Indian diplomats believe Rome did not want to escalate the crisis further after what they describe as the Supreme Court's "bold but questionable decision" to restrain the Italian ambassador from leaving the country in what was described as a violation of the Vienna Convention.
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