"Business is filled with crisis and failure and sadness and tension and discomfort and then triumph," Mr. Raz says.
This week at the United Nations Climate Summit, the world took an important step back from the brink of a grim future filled with food crises by embracing the cause of climate-smart agriculture.
At a nearby house, the front flower bed was filled with foreclosure-crisis detritus, including the business cards of realtors and mortgage specialists.
WASHINGTON — It started off as yet another staid International Monetary Fund conference on financial crises, filled with ample praise for one of its high-wattage speakers, Ben S. Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, and carefully calibrated comments on optimal monetary policy.
His four years were filled with a series of crises: the collapse of the financial system, spiraling unemployment, the cratering housing market, the financial reform bill, the ailing auto industry, the European debt crisis, a debt ceiling standoff and two protracted budget negotiations.
No wonder my parents' generation loved it so much – they were raising kids during the Carter administration, a time filled with recession, an energy crisis and the nightly news counting down how many days the Iran hostage crisis had been going on (without the internet, mobile phones or a microwave – it is a miracle they survived at all).
The newspapers were filled with headlines like "The Crisis" and "Death of a Vision".
James Coventry's brilliant book Time and Space is filled with many so-called crisis points and bemoaning of the status quo.
And we do all of this hoping and praying as the headlines are filled with news of a crisis that does not exist.
Since that time, it has been as powerless to shape the course of events as virtually every other nation - and its zero problems foreign policy has become a foreign policy filled with problems, from the crisis in Syria to a resurgent Kurdish movement to ongoing tension with Israel.
