Beekeepers have fought regional bee crises before, but this is the first U.S. national affliction.
Besides, has not the banking system survived crises before, notably during the high inflation of the early 1990s?
There have been crises before, but not even the Great Depression pushed bond yields down this far or this widely.
Mr. Alibhai said Gencom had weathered crises before, but that this was a "very unfortunate situation that no textbook could have prepared us for".
"These crises before happened when there were tens of thousands of American troops in Iraq, and they all got resolved, but resolved by Iraqis through the political process," said Antony J. Blinken, Mr. Biden's national security adviser.
Still, the problems are real and should not be ignored.Cornucopia or white elephant Biotechnology has been through funding crises before, but almost everyone seems to agree that this is the worst one yet.
While Air Afrique has survived crises before, it is now bankrupt, its debt is bigger than ever and publications on the continent are using words like "requiem" and "abyss".
"We've had crises before," Mr. Llorens added, "but not like this one, where even the solidly middle-class people don't know if they will have a job from one day to the next".
Rohatyn has been in the middle of crises before; he was a key strategist in the forming of the Municipal Assistance Corp, which helped get New York through the threat of default in the 1970s.
We've had crises before, but not like this one". Field hands strolled in and washed for prayers.
But Salem has weathered identity crises before.
