Here's a secret that spinmeisters will never tell you: When you use spin to minimize a crisis, the crisis almost always spins right out of control.
In this essay, due to space limitations we do not review research about CSR-related public relations and marketing efforts designed to minimize corporate crises.
Thus, in finance, the fear of loss allegedly produces enough caution to minimize financial crises.
Attendance at these check-ups was presented as a crucial strand of careful self-management, when patient and doctor worked together to minimize health crises.
He was promptly denounced by leaders of AIDS organizations and gay-rights groups, who accused him of lying to minimize the crisis.
After a string of embarrassing declarations by President Thabo Mbeki that seemed to deny or minimize the crisis, South Africa's government has finally called for rapid release of the election results.
As Mr. Uys, 58, has broadened his approach over the years -- moving from pure theater into the realm of activist for a more committed response to South Africa's AIDS epidemic -- he has focused on what he maintains is the government's tendency to minimize the crisis.
She cited shared US/China goals on containing North Korean nuclear weapons, peacefully resolving the Iranian nuclear controversy, stabilizing Afghanistan and ending conflict in Sudan among a variety of ways in which the US and China can work together to minimize international crisis.
The architects of the plan, Timothy F. Geithner, Treasury secretary, and Lawrence Summers, director of the National Economic Council, said it was essential to give the Fed more authority to avert or at least minimize future market crises.
Without minimizing the crisis in West Africa, this knowledge gap suggests that media coverage of these health threats may have been unbalanced.
