crises

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At the core of this crises was the ability of a privileged few to take huge risks with other people's money.

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  • Bushmeat is one of the central crises, which is occurring in our population right now, in humanity, on this planet. —  Nathan Wolfe's jungle search for viruses
  • Russell Miller provides a sympathetic account of his subject's spiritualist crises, and asks: had Conan Doyle dabbled in mediums and moonshine before The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901, would the fire-breathing beast really have come from the Beyond, as we are at first led to believe? —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • Fallout from housing, credit and financial crises -- the worst since the 1930s -- is forcing companies to lay off workers and resort to other cost-saving measures to survive the recession.
  • Rather than discussing and producing real political measures to tackle the world's many crises, the Security Council is proliferating forms of expression, unnecessarily complicating its already-opaque communication with the world. —  open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
  • "As in all economic crises, there is a need for international coordination," he pointed out, emphasising the special role of the EU in this direction. —  Greek News
 

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