But even if countries were fined for being poor, mismanaged, or crisis-causing, why should politicians care?
In times of war or crisis, people want the security of strong leaders: Churchill, Roosevelt.
Even without some last-minute quarrel or crisis, leaders rarely manage to stick to the script.
We are facing the worst economic downturn or crisis since the Great Depression.
Pain is not distributed equally in the aftermath of a disaster or crisis.
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In any regulatory challenge or crisis, businesses have to make separate assessments of each public entity with which they must deal.
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In the days and weeks following a natural disaster, or crisis, do not assume that your experience is shared by another .
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Every recording was silent, yet each was unique, archiving a specific moment of silence orchestrated to commemorate a major tragedy or crisis.
But "Moneyball" giving has its obvious drawbacks, the first of which is it doesn't fill any current need or crisis like regular giving does.
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Data is also what runs in the global financial systems, measures our consumption propensities and behaviors, provides indications of whether bankers should buy or sell, and either produces profits or crisis.
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The exposure is certainly a boost for de Bonvoisin's company, the First 30 Days, which features a series of guides aimed at helping the anxious work through the first month of a change or crisis.
Compared with surprise resignations or crisis-related upheavals, planned CEO transitions lead to a narrower range of stock-price fluctuation for a company, both on the day of the announcement and six months later, according to research findings by FTI Consulting Inc.
The decision to recall Parliament during recess is one only taken during times of national or international crisis or when there is a threat to UK security.
They happen whether they are due to our elected leaders failing to reach an agreement regarding the Fiscal Cliff or the credit markets freezing up or a currency crisis or a large hedge fund imploding.
Normally, elections that take place at a time of war or foreign crisis produce a decisive victory.
Decide now, not when one of you is in the midst of a family or health crisis.
That is why the bursting of the tech bubble did not cause a financial, economic or political crisis.
Capriles expressed concern about unrest or political crisis in the absence of a decision by the high court.
It takes more information, or a crisis of some kind, to bring everybody to the table and work out a deal.
The time-honored (and preferred) way a country digs itself out from a debt or financial crisis is to grow its way out.
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However, the families of these soldiers are not well equipped with mental health resources to identify the warning signs and signals that could help prevent suicides or other crisis issues.
"Increasingly we're dealing with the 'new homeless', people who have been living fairly comfortably until hit by job loss, family break-up or another crisis, " its chief executive Carol O'Bryan said.
"Whether it was on crime or the crisis in the public health system, Mbeki never had the humility to acknowledge there was a problem, " wrote Prof Habib, in the Sunday Independent newspaper.
According to JPMorgan, the economy in Britain probably shrank at an annual rate of 5.9% in the fourth quarter, the euro-area by 5%, and Japan by a heart-stopping 9%, in a country with no housing bubble or banking crisis.
Senator RUDMAN: When the country is in the greatest jeopardy, whether it be in terms of a war, in terms of a terrific economic or natural crisis, that is the time for the courts to be more involved, not less involved.
This lending constriction worsens a eurozone recession, which in turn exacerbates the weakness of banks: a financing or liquidity crisis morphs into a solvency crisis, as has already happened in Spain and looks set to happen in Italy (yesterday's refinancing of Italy's Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena augurs ill).
The second possibility is that not only the level of UK productivity, but its potential growth rate was permanently damaged by the financial crisis - or maybe, the crisis revealed that we had been kidding ourselves for a long time about the rate at which the economy could safely grow.
Why that is not about trumped-up short-term efficiency savings or thoughtless crisis cuts - but is about long-term change, long-term change that involves reducing the demands on the state by fixing our broken society and long term change that means increasing the productivity of the state by reforming our public services.
If a spike in interest rates, a surge in commodity prices, or a currency crisis forces the Fed to scale back or stop its money printing, the party could grind to a halt, and the hangover could be nasty.
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Every time a system is in a state of crisis or transition both curves become bumpy (see the bump corresponding to the dot com crisis in 2000).
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