"This is something we can handle right now," Mr. Angelides said.
"It's more than I can handle right now," Mr. Epperson said.
It's the upsurge in patriotism, in nationalism, that's perhaps the hardest thing to handle right now.
Donnis Wells, 69, a Republican from Florence, Miss., said: "I don't think civil liberties are the more important thing we need to handle right now.
Maybe dealing with a major renovation of Avery Fisher Hall and being displaced for up to two seasons is all that the directors can handle right now.
"There might be some opportunity to make money on that bottom half of the scale that Diamond cannot handle right now".
The stark reality of a peace deal, after so many months of violence, might be too much for Israelis to handle right now.
"We're definitely growing and have more work than we can handle right now," said Ms. Ferguson, who says she receives 15 to 30 calls a month from prospective clients.
"Certainly people are overwhelmed and have too much to handle right now," said Paul Kettl, a psychiatrist who has done research on the impact of media coverage of the shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado.
But Mr. Milchan, whose film credits as a producer include the 2010 movies "Love and Other Drugs" and "Knight and Day," has been declining Mr. Frank's interview requests - because, by Mr. Frank's surmise, any public airing of Israel's nuclear weapons capacity is too hot to handle right now.
