In times of war or crisis, people want the security of strong leaders: Churchill, Roosevelt.
In the largest ever post-war financial crisis such organisations are still complaining of skills shortages.
It is also one of Syria's most secretive institutions, with employees banned from communicating with any foreign agencies or foreigners especially during time of war and crisis, like now.
Here we are in 2012, limping along a decade full of war and crisis and conflict, and one of our most prominent political writers is arguing that one of the things we really ought to be doing is mocking Barbara Streisand.
Okolloh, 31, created the site using Ushahidi, a free piece of software that quickly creates Web sites to which eyewitnesses of war and crisis in out-of-reach places can send news by e-mail or text and have it attached to a Google map.
Normally, elections that take place at a time of war or foreign crisis produce a decisive victory.
On the other hand, Americans tend to rally around the President in times of grave national crisis and war.
George Soros says the global financial system faces its worst crisis since World War II.
The financier George Soros calls today's credit crunch the worst global financial crisis since World War II.
If this week's events reveal anything, it is that Germany's mainstream parties are in their worst crisis since the war.
The governor of the Bank of England, Sir Mervyn King, has dubbed this "the worst crisis since World War II".
Just think, some mutter darkly, what would have happened if the financial crisis and the war in Georgia had taken place under the preceding Slovenian presidency.
He did this after the 1987 stock crash, the Gulf War, the Mexican peso crisis, the Asian financial crises and the failure of one of the largest hedge funds.
After a breakfast meeting with Prime Minister Gordon Brown, US President Barack Obama said a "sense of urgency" was needed to confront the most severe economic crisis since World War II.
Dr. JENDAYI FRAZER (Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs): Well, the basic message was that the government of Sudan needs to take responsibility for ending the humanitarian crisis and the war in Darfur.
The recent carnage coincides with an emerging political crisis in the war-torn Middle Eastern nation, which faces an increasingly fractious legislature as Iraq's Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish political blocs increasingly seem at odds.
The group, which was founded by scientists who had worked on the first atomic bombs in the second world war, listed the continuing crisis between India and Pakistan over the disputed region of Kashmir as one of their concerns.
During the Suez Canal crisis, the Vietnam War and again during the 1970s oil embargo, courts held that commodities brokers could not bail out of futures contracts.
History is replete with examples of the inevitable failure of paper money systems, from our own founding days, to inter-war Germany, to the monetary crisis of 1970s Latin America.
The standoff with the Soviet Union in October 1962, a fight that came to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis, ended without war, which gave the market license to rise again.
Gordon Brown reacted with nervous laughter followed by the insistence that his wife was very forgiving and he was merely doing his duty by trying to persuade the media at a time when the country was at war and faced a grave economic crisis.
Did Charles de Gaulle, summoned back in 1958 to meet France's constitutional crisis and end the Algerian war, realise all this?
Chen Nagar New York Why does the Western media wait till there is a crisis -- famine, war or disaster -- before they cover issues related to Third World countries like Sudan?
Admit the Greek-run part of Cyprus (in legal terms the whole island) and risk sparking a crisis, perhaps even a war, between Greeks and Turks, even though the governments in Athens and Ankara have been getting along better than they have for some time?
One starts to appreciate the small gifts of coexistence that would have seemed utopian to our ancestors: the interracial family playing in the park, the comedian who lands a zinger on the commander in chief, the countries that quietly back away from a crisis instead of escalating to war.
While the competition of these priorities and plans for solving the Syrian crisis harks back to the Cold War, ironically these P5 antagonists may have provided the outline of a framework and some structural stability that the Annan plan has been lacking to date.
That makes an early constitutional crisis or a permanent government-opposition war seem less likely.
True, Kennedy rescued the world from a nuclear war by using diplomacy to resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis peacefully.
But we now face a crisis that is the economic equivalent of war.
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