For instance, prime-age long-term unemployed in Japan, Italy, Korea, Turkey and several other countries lose their entire unemployment benefit after 12 months or less (prior to recent crisis-related extensions of benefit duration, unemployment insurance benefits in the United States also expired after 26 weeks in most states).
The 1850's crisis over the extension of slavery receives little more than a nod, the election of 1860 -- precipitant of the South's secession and the Civil War -- is barely mentioned, and the agony of Reconstruction receives perfunctory acknowledgment in a sentence that turns to the Melville women and the hard time they had finding servants.
But he again fell out with his pro-Syrian government colleagues during the crisis over the extension of President Lahoud's term in office.
The craze for securitisation which lies at the heart of the current crisis is simply an extension of this process.
It's an agenda that starts with providing a stimulus that will reach the most vulnerable Americans, including immediate relief to areas hardest hit by the housing crisis and a significant extension of unemployment insurance for those who are out of work.
In Portugal the dramatic decline in sectoral bargaining can be attributed to the severity of the crisis, the stop in extension orders, the uncertainty of reforms, and the divisions among unions and between unions and employers.
After arguing late last year that his financial background made him best able to lead New York in an economic crisis, the mayor engineered an extension of the term limits law so that he could seek re-election.
The crisis over the two-month extension wasn't really about the payroll tax at all; it was about the hurt feelings of bumptious House members having to accede to a deal driven by the Senate and the White House.
Their divergence will be over Syria and the extension of its crisis in Lebanon.
Speculation on commodities, the same practice that bottomed out our financial sector, has resulted in higher food prices and by extension, a food crisis, because people could not afford to buy food.
With Labour said to be facing a financial crisis, Caring agreed to an indefinite extension of the loan at the request of Gordon Brown.
