Emergencies? Charlie does his best!

Usage examples of crises.

The Indo-Pakistani crises of 1990, 1999, and 2002 were all sparked by blatant Pakistani support for Kashmiri insurgents, and in every case India was restrained from responding as it would have liked by fear of escalation to nuclear war.

The most difficult questions I was always asked by my bosses were those such as, "Why should we devote all of these resources to Iraq to head off a problem that we may have in the future, rather than using them to solve the crises we have right now in Somalia, Bosnia, Haiti, Kosovo, etc.

Probably Saddam's greatest advantage was that after six years of sanctions and regular crises with Iraq, many nations had grown weary of the whole affair.

And when the president found himself in domestic political turmoil as a result of the Monica Lewinsky affair, avoiding foreign policy crises became an even higher priority.

REGIME CHANGE AND CONTAINMENT, 1999-2002 The painful eighteen months of repeated crises with Saddam that culminated in Desert Fox had brought about an important change in the administration's thinking toward Iraq.

Not surprisingly, it was Vice President Gore and his staff who remained most interested in the regime change plan, or at least an aggressive containment policy, to head off the possibility of future Iraq crises if they inherited the White House in the 2000 elections.

Finally, there are many other countries that would like to see all of the sanctions on Iraq lifted because they dislike the idea of the United Nations imposing such strict sanctions on any country (because they might be next) and because they are weary of constant crises with Saddam.

However, as other, equally thoughtful academics have pointed out, "the early phase of the Cold War, before crises over Berlin and Cuba worked out the limits to probes and provocations, is a less reassuring model.

Indeed, a major study on nuclear weapons crises concluded that "a regional predator will find a small nuclear arsenal a powerful tool for collapsing regional military coalitions that the United States might craft to oppose such a future opponent.

It is the one policy that would guarantee us that we will not have to endure multiple nuclear crises with Saddam or fight a war against a nuclear-armed Iraq.

The status quo means more of the same: more crises with Iraq, someday with the added incendiary of nuclear weapons.

You will be faced with a series of crises, as you are now faced with the first, and in each case your freedom of action will become similarly circumscribed so that you will be forced along one, and only one, path.

I should think the synchronization of the two crises, inner and outer, puts it beyond all doubt.

There have been two Seldon crises so far, and both times the Foundation was in danger of extermination.

So the solutions to the various crises must be achieved by the forces that become available to us at the time.