With its economy sputtering and its currency at risk of collapse, Egypt badly needs a stable government that can make credible commitments to the lenders, beginning with the International Monetary Fund.
Haitians living abroad know how badly the country needs stable politics to nurture its economy.
Mrs Harrington's stable was badly out of form last winter but, when the horses came right in April, Macs Joy beat Brave Inca convincingly at Punchestown.
What is holding them back from staking a firmer claim on power, if only in the back-room councils of the party, political analysts here say, is the widespread sense that politically as well as economically, Japan is at one of the weakest point in its postwar history and that a political system that has been one of the world's most stable is badly overdue for a shake-up.
It's now, I believe, decision time - decision time for the Liberal Democrats - and I hope they make the right decision to give this country the strong, stable government that it badly needs and it badly needs quickly.
Opposition leader Yuriy Lutsenko, a former minister, was badly beaten but is in a stable condition.
If one big, wealthy, politically stable country could stumble so badly, they wondered, couldn't much the same thing happen to other such countries?
A key element of the plan is the restoration of all wartime buildings – from the badly-damaged decoders' wooden huts to the stable block – to regain their authentic 1940s style.
"In stable, industrialised democracies, no matter how badly a government does, democracy as a system is not punished".
The government has said that the plant's three badly damaged reactors have been in a relatively stable state, called a cold shutdown, for months, and officials say that continues.
