He thrived on uncertainty and crisis, surviving several assassination attempts, and expanded his influence.
In this fairly short span, he managed to provoke two major international crises; survive a coup (a second toppled him); order two disastrous economic overhauls; and hold erratic confrontations with nearly everyone in sight — with the Chinese leadership, with Presidents Kennedy and Nixon, with the neo-Stalinists in his Presidium and the Russian intellectuals in his midst.
This is the best option for Medicaid, facing a midlife crisis, to survive.
Just two weeks ago, most pundits in the capital were confident that Mr Shevardnadze, the "grey fox", who kept his job as president of Georgia through civil wars, assassination attempts, and innumerable economic and political crises, would survive yet again.
Perhaps that is a clue to why, despite the all-pervading sense of crisis, Britain survived its twilight years — and the catastrophic war that followed.
"It's so important to gather all the facts," said Mr. Gelman, who said he had supported a friend whose daughter was captured in the crisis and survived.
ATHENS — The man at the center of Greece's debt crisis is surviving on four to five hours of sleep a night and could not get to his office last week because it was blockaded by striking employees.
After steering the firm through the financial crisis and surviving a firestorm over allegations that Goldman had bet against its own clients, Mr. Blankfein, 58, now appears to be enjoying himself.
But having trumped up a phony crisis, and survived, Netanyahu returned to Israel "a conquering hero".
The patient fortunately did not develop 'Addisionian crisis' and survived the operation.
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