Obama had come to rely on Summers, who had fought financial panics in Latin America and Asia in the 1990s as a top official in the Treasury Department, to help him manage an overwhelming series of crises. (washingtonpost.com)
There's an episode of The Simpsons where Homer tries to get himself out of an escalating series of crises by explaining «it's my first day.» (observer.com)
Sandra Bullock and George Clooney play astronauts — a newbie scientist and a veteran cowboy — who dodge space debris and the usual narrative expectations while coping with a highly compressed series of crises 372 miles above the... (orlandosentinel.com)