crisis
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Solving the state’s affordability crisis, Umansky believes, is dependent upon making it easier for builders and developers to do business within its borders.
From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026
But the site's foreman, a committed revolutionary called Orlando Diaz, insists they are a well-ventilated, smart solution to the capital's acute housing crisis.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
Gramsci wrote these words during the crisis unleashed by the onset of Soviet communism, Mussolini’s fascism and the Great Depression.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Following the financial crisis, legislators designed the 2012 Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act to stimulate public markets.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
The Treasury didn’t ever actually get around to explaining what the crisis was, just that the action was taken in response to Citigroup’s “declining stock price.”
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Vocabulary lists containing crisis
"The Civil Rights Movement"
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Michelle Obama's Speech at the 2016 DNC
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