The case comes after the S.E.C has been criticized by lawmakers and others for filing only a handful of crisis-related charges.
The tsunami hit the northern coast four months before, killing 20,000 people, destroying entire towns, causing a partial nuclear meltdown and plunging the country into a handful of simultaneous crises: energy, public health, media, politics.
Similarly, there have only been a handful of financial crises interspersed in decades of regular trading, which makes it hard for banks and regulators alike to know when it's safe to let traders make bets guided by equations.
WASHINGTON — The panel appointed by Congress to investigate the causes of the financial crisis referred a handful of cases involving potential wrongdoing to the Justice Department, a person close to the investigation said Monday evening.
Mr Glaeser surveys the literature as it relates to a handful of different inequality-crisis mechanisms and he concludes that inequality was likely "only a small part of the story", at least during the most recent crisis.
The Fed's preferred measure of inflation has risen above 2% in only a handful of months since the crisis of 2008.
While a handful of MPs debated the crisis in Aleppo, a similar number were to be found in Westminster Hall arguing over whether the Queen should be given a brand new royal yacht.
Today, she is continuing this research as a doctoral candidate at the University of Idaho and is one of only a handful of scholars researching the crisis.
Legislators have passed a handful of laws to confront a crisis they previously regarded principally as a criminal issue.
Consider just a handful of recent events: the financial crisis of 2008; the gulf oil spill of 2010; and the Japanese nuclear disaster, the debt-ceiling debacle and euro crisis this year.
