But senior administration officials have underscored in recent days that they are not actively considering military options.
As we have underscored in the past, the necessary speed of adjustment will depend on the size of fiscal imbalances, the degree of market pressures, and the state of health of the overall economy.
The distinguished archaeologist Barry Cunliffe has underscored this in his recent epic survey, Britain Begins: "The islanders," he says after surveying millennia of British history, "have always been a mongrel race and we are the stronger for it".
The issue has underscored strains in the European Union over the application of the Schengen agreement, which loosens border controls among the union's 27 member nations, except Britain and Ireland.
In a rare show of muscle, Greek authorities on Thursday arrested Lavrentis Lavrentiadis, a high-profile oligarch, at his home in an affluent Athens suburb in a criminal case that has underscored growing concerns in Greece over graft and crony capitalism.
The upheaval over the donations has underscored the tensions in American-Saudi relations, stemming in part from that fact that 15 of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers were Saudis.
It has underscored serious weaknesses in the judicial system, which encourages women not to bring charges against rapists and rarely brings to justice those who are accused.
But her kidnapping this month by gunmen in Baghdad has underscored the risks to foreigners working in Iraq, particularly freelance journalists, who operate with little or no protection.
The renewed fighting has underscored a leadership vacuum in Yemen, marked by confusion over who is really in charge: Mr. Saleh or his deputy, Abed Rabbo Mansour al-Hadi, who is supposed to succeed him.
NEW YORK — The past week has underscored one more way in which the lives of the super-rich are diverging from the lives of everyone else: The middle-class is becoming a matriarchy, while the plutocracy remains firmly patriarchal.
