Not exact matches
It seems bizarre that the most reasonable understanding
of why the 2008 bank
crisis did not require a vast public subsidy for Wall Street occurred
at Monday's Republican presidential debate on June 13, by none other than Congressional Tea Party
leader Michele Bachmann — who had boasted in a Wall Street Journal interview two days earlier, on Saturday, that she voted against the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) «both
times.»
So it is not
at all surprising that presently another popularly chosen
leader, after succeeding in the
crisis that had called him forth, was frankly acclaimed as king, perhaps through the scheming
of his friends; but also it is entirely possible that he was chosen by spontaneous action
of the associated tribes who actually felt, as it recorded in a late account
of the incident, that the exigencies
of the disordered
time required them to have a king, as did other nations.
She led an often mutinous cabinet
at a
time of economic
crisis, against a level
of personal vitriol to which no other modern
leader has been subjected.
Play on our own
leader's image
of geeky seriousness and make that a strength
at a
time of continued
crisis.
As WFP
leader Dan Cantor said
at the
time (fingers crossed, no doubt): «We understand and accept Andrew's point that this is a pivotal moment in the history
of this state, similar to the 1975 New York City fiscal
crisis, when
leaders in the labor, civic, business and political arena must put aside their individual agendas for the good
of the entire state.»
«We support Obasanjo for his timely intervention because
at a
time of national
crisis and with people losing their lives across the Middle Belt and Southern Nigeria, anybody discussing partisan politics under such an atmosphere
of mass misery is not fit to be regarded as a human being talk more, a
leader.
Built on specific English and world history state standards, the project covered concepts including the pre-World War II global economic
crisis, the rise
of totalitarianism, and the societal moral dilemmas that world
leaders at that
time faced, and then had students draw parallels to similar fictional themes in the book.