Day to day, American life remained as pleasant as could be expected, even in the midst of considerable economic hardship.
It's unrealistic to expect people in the midst of a hurricane to stop and carefully compose a self-contained 140-character tweet, but people who are monitoring a disaster out of harm's way can help fill in information gaps, Palen says.
"I can say that cancer and suffering give the beautiful gift of perspective," Tippetts wrote in her book, The Hardest Peace: Expecting Grace in the Midst of Life's Hard.
During rounds of interviews on Thursday, Marks was often left searching for detailed answers often expected of bankers in the midst of takeover deals.
You expected hard bargaining in the midst of crisis, already?
"I would expect most decisions in the midst of a project should be made within 24 hours".
It is striking, for example, that the best-performing sector of the S.& P. this year has been technology, an economically sensitive group that isn't expected to do well in the midst of a recession.
René Jalbert, the sergeant-at-arms who persuaded Denis Lortie to surrender during his 1984 attack, said that someone should have intervened at least to distract Lépine, but acknowledged that "ordinary citizens cannot be expected to react heroically in the midst of terror".
I didn't expect to find myself in the midst of such a passionate exchange.
Their average margins were about 16.5percentt a year between 2002 and 2007, and, even after some rate adjustments, are expected to exceed 12percentthis yearar in the midst of a recession.
