She often receives letters of thanks from patients who say she helped them feel empowered to make informed decisions in a time of chaos.
At a time of economic chaos Ford resisted strong pressures for a more activist government, most spectacularly when he decided not to bail out New York City.
After being driven through the streets of broken glass and police lines, he ascended to a suite on an upper floor at the Westin Hotel and flipped on local news, where he saw for the first time the scenes of chaos that had raged all around his hotel earlier that day.
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At any given time, you could have chaos, a confrontation or a fight.
Delivering the O'Connell Lecture in St Malachy's College, Mrs McAleese said it was a "time for courage rather than chaos, for focus rather than foment" in the Northern Ireland political situation.
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The worst part of this is that fighting the battle to keep things from slipping into chaos leaves no time for technologists to exhibit the leadership in applying new technology to help implement strategy.
The chaos comes at a time when the DoJ Antitrust Division is without a leader.
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But the hyperinflation raging at the time in Russia and Kazakhstan yielded chaos.
But it seems the realisation has dawned that the unranked list has the potential to create chaos at exactly the time when it is least needed.
Economics is prone to conditions that call to mind chaos theory: Given time and a sequence of interacting elements, two seemingly similar situations can lead to very different outcomes.
The rules never came, adding to the general chaos and confusion when the time arrived to apply them.
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They also navigated away from Oklahoma City so as not to clog roads at commute time, or to contribute to the chaos that would develop there if a tornado went into that heavily urbanized area.
In addition to the immediate damage done to aircraft and airport installations, it will take Sri Lanka a long time to erase the image of violence and chaos from the minds of potential tourists.
While the 201st anniversary probably will not see the record setting crowds that overran Munich latest year and for the first time in recent history brought a sense of chaos to the normally clockwork event, Oktoberfest has been generally trending upwards and is more popular than ever.
There is no better time to have a strong unified team than amidst chaos.
Many students who volunteered their time to keep the massive event from devolving into chaos Wednesday quietly expressed hope that a trend was developing, and that the Atlantic Coast Conference school would become a regular election-year stopping point for presidential hopefuls.
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Now, with the chaos back at manageable levels, it was time to start making up for lost time.
In a comedy of manners set amid the chaos of modern Beijing, the characters have a hard time just keeping their heads.
Last year, the government ordered a time change, then reversed itself a couple of days later, causing chaos.
Nick Pollard's review found the BBC's management system had "proved completely incapable of dealing" with the issue and "the level of chaos and confusion was even greater than was apparent at the time".
Gloomsters predicted administrative chaos, with everything from stadiums to roads not being ready on time.
However, when the exam regulator Ofqual and the education select committee examined this reform of the entire exam system they said that it was a recipe for chaos since too much change was being planned in too short a time.
Compare this to the chaos of streets, buildings and populations that large cities that have evolved over time.
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The rest of the time, he explained, a person in such a state is inwardly dealing with an invisible roiling chaos, unaware of what's going on around him.
They are charms against chaos, secret mantras for dark times, strings that vibrate forever in defiance of the laws of time and space.
At the time many observers, including The Economist, accepted that there might be a case for helping the country through its chaos with a new loan, even if the plan had only a fighting chance of success.
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