The actual person, Sandra Laing, suffered through a kind of industrial-strength crisis of identity, with her parents determined to ensure that her privileges be protected via that all-important white designation, and her own growing awareness that, whatever the government stamped on a piece of paper, she would have no shortage of difficulty in finding a place in so divided a society.
If in its own imagination GE represented a bastion of American strength, the crisis revealed it to be one of the economy's weaker links.In the aftermath Mr Immelt recognised that the finance arm had to be shrunk.
Investors have plenty of evidence to suggest Wells is taking full advantage of its relative strength post-crisis.
In part, it is a result of the German economy's unusual strength throughout the crisis.
For the sake of my sanity, I wanted to find resolution and strength from this crisis.
"And HSBC was the company that was a tower of strength in the crisis.
"HSBC was the company that was a tower of strength in the crisis.
Dancing had shaped Tanny's personality, instilling in her discipline, perseverance and a capacity to withstand pain that gave her inner strength when the crisis came.
By virtue of his survival and Deutsche Bank's relative strength during the crisis, Mr. Ackermann, 60, the Swiss investment banker who has run the institution since 2002, has become a sort of emissary for the industry.
The strength of Rape Crisis has always been that it offers women a way forward, to find some sense of peace in the weeks and years following their ordeal.
"We do hope that the European Union will also have the similar will, a unity of purpose to not only support what Greece is doing, but also show the necessary strength for a crisis which has obviously not only reached Greek dimensions but a wider European dimension," he said.
