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crisis

[krahy-sis] / ˈkraɪ sɪs /


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In the aftermath of the housing crisis, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Fannie and Freddie, sought to keep them on a tighter leash, at least for a time.

From The Wall Street Journal

Maybe Yuna Hollander didn’t consciously think, Let me deploy culinary therapy in this moment of crisis.

From Salon

California and New York, both states with acute housing crises, have already pursued their own reforms.

From The Wall Street Journal

The scale of the crisis demands that mental health be treated as essential rather than secondary to humanitarian response.

From Los Angeles Times

To understand Britain’s crisis of democracy, and how it both resembles and differs from our predicament in the Land of the Free, we need to back up a bit.

From Salon