Such status confusion has not been seen since the Flat Cap Years, in which ex-friend Madonna married Guy Ritchie and had a staggering crisis of New-York-cockney-country-wife identity.
His aides said the mayor would ultimately be judged on how the city rebounds, not on empathy, although they are keenly aware that Mr. Bloomberg, a billionaire who urged New Yorkers to take in a Broadway show in the wake of a blizzard in 2010, is always at risk of falling into caricature — perhaps never more so than now, as he confronts a staggering crisis at the end of his final term.
The president's former parliamentary allies say they are sad it came to a coup, but that this was better than staggering from crisis to crisis.
Facing a staggering financial crisis that is forcing it to make deep cuts in its services, Mount Sinai Medical Center announced yesterday that the president of its hospital, Barry R. Freedman, was being replaced.
In March, a group of New York library officials released a statement declaring that a "staggering infrastructure crisis" has crept up on the city's public library system.
The state's dismal economy and shrinking population are compounded by a staggering debt crisis, including $111 billion in pension debt and more than $6 billion in unpaid bills.
The saintly Chris Boardman, British Cycling's campaigner-in-chief, called the crisis "staggering", pointing out that regular exercise like cycling can halve the diabetes risk.
The staggering accumulation of crises and conflicts facing the world today -- in Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, Gaza and Libya -- are linked to America's new stance.
Mr. Bernanke scraped and bowed in apology without mentioning the staggering costs of the crisis the banks led us into.
Nassau officials say they are finally getting control of the staggering property tax refund crisis that nearly bankrupted the county in the 1990's.
While the most acute real estate challenge is to find office and rehearsal space, performance sites are also in short supply, arts administrators say, although it has usually been possible to avert a crisis by staggering performance schedules and through other creative juggling.
