Brown and Fanning's small-time, but overblown, personalities are reminiscent of Wall Street entitlements and the housing crisis free-for-all.
Sierra Leone welcomed a relatively crisis-free year in 2006.
While the film is patchy, Bullock's brand is confidently crisis-free.
While London's buildup was relatively smooth and crisis-free, Rio is struggling to keep preparations on track.
But seven years of crisis-free growth, together with a change of government, mean that the treasury's old self-confidence is back.
Susan Collins, a widely respected company veteran from the firm's Maine office, told reporters, "Can we have a crisis-free day?
He said he'd been having the uncomfortable feeling that the crisis-free years of the postwar period had little to do with any particular financial regulation and a lot to do with the franchise value of banks.
Then, too, a democracy as pluralistic and relatively crisis-free as India's is not the sort of system that will produce outsized leaders, for good or ill — a quality that reflects India's political and constitutional health.
It has indeed been a crisis-free summer, one without the blackouts and power shortages of earlier this year, when California was scrounging around for new supplies of electricity.
What Governor Bush recognizes is that at this crisis-free moment of maximum American contentment and minimal American political involvement, relentlessly beatific imagery and oratorical Muzak really can carry the day.
