During the course of the weekend, Francie is sensed -- or seen -- by others in the town, setting in motion a chain of crises that culminate in a disturbing act of violence and a death.
The assassination is the climax of an extraordinary chain of crises to have rocked Pakistan in the past nine months as President Pervez Musharraf sought to consolidate his grip on power amid sieges, suicide bombings, high political drama and a surge in Islamist violence.
Emergency alert systems serve as a critical link in the chain of crisis communication, and they are essential to minimize loss during emergencies.
The situation in Somalia is just one link in a chain of crisis that stretches thousands of miles from north-eastern Nigeria, through South Sudan and eventually to Yemen.
This prompts a daisy chain of emotional crises in her deadbeat hippie husband, doe-eyed daughter, wannabe-yuppie lover, bolshie lesbian best friend, indeed the entire town as it realises suddenly, half-cut under the bunting, that it faces collective unemployment when the local factory closes down.
First, the country dodged the hedge fund speculation that set off a chain of currency crises across Asia in the late 1990s.
An integration of skills from dialectic behavioural therapy (daily review of symptom change; analysis of behaviour chains; development of crisis plans; emotional regulation skills for the whole family) with FBT (improvement of communications during mealtimes) [ 63] for families of adolescent bulimia nervosa has also been tried [ 64].
BEHIND THE NEWS The slump has now rippled far down a chain of causes and effects: The credit crisis dried up spending by American consumers, which undercut growth in China, whose manufacturers sell them goods; that, in turn, clobbered Taiwan, which depends heavily on trade with the once-booming mainland.
Mr. Lhota became known for inverting the chain of command in crises, briefing senior officials on their own emergencies.
Charlotte Mijeon, of the anti-nuclear group Sortir du Nucléaire (Get Out of Nuclear), said there was a "chain of responsibility" for the crisis in France's nuclear industry which ranged from the government at the top to subcontracted private suppliers.
Such a crisis requires a chain of plausible events to follow one after the other.
