Despite the anxiety that the LTCM affair caused, three years of falling stockmarkets have made hedge funds seem more attractive to investors.
Those twin blows caused three years of economic stagnation in Mexico and the loss of some 700,000 formal jobs, most of them in the maquiladora plants producing goods for export.
Labour can reply that the Tories have learned nothing either – they're ready to plunge the country into yet deeper cuts, though last time it caused three years of flatlining.
Who more than La Russa could have made McGwire's return almost sound like a human rights cause five years after his dissembling and disastrous performance during a Congressional hearing on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball?
The Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation, the largest United States Spanish-language radio broadcaster, agreed today to buy two radio stations in San Antonio for about $45 million in cash and expects the purchases to cause two years of operating losses.
Meanwhile, the exclusion of Kurds from parliament could cause three years of peace talks with Turkey's armed Kurdish insurgents, which are essential to the larger reconstruction of a war-torn region, to break down.
The Vatican stipulates that for all causes, five years must elapse after the death of a saintly candidate.
Ragano died, of natural causes, four years after his book came out, and there's no real evidence to substantiate his story.
Why did my son die, she asked the president: "What is the noble cause?" Two years later, Sheehan's pushed another question into the public glare.
Whatever the cause, four years ago it finally propelled Mr. Cabo, now 35, from a job as a Starbucks manager to a position as an English teacher in Beijing.
