It has rather been the constant danger that a financial spark anywhere could cause the great conflagration that finally occurred in 2007-8 that kept Geithner and his colleagues up at night.
Even before he engineered the merger of the Travelers Corporation with Citicorp in 1998 -- a deal that required legislative changes in Washington that finally occurred last year -- Mr. Weill was intent on building his company's overseas businesses, especially in Japan.
The marker is set out in mid-March, in advance of an ice floe that finally occurred last year on May 8, well after Connecticut fly-fishers have waded midstream into the Housatonic.
That finally occurred at the beginning of Act II, last Feb.
However, until that clampdown finally occurs (if it ever does), I'll continue to work in the industry, learning as I go.
Some school officials seem to be setting themselves up for a standards debacle in hopes that when the great disaster finally occurs and kids start failing in droves, an outraged public will ante up the money for smaller classes, better-paid teachers, newer buildings, etc.
But when one finally occurs, they discover that not only do they not need the Machine, but also that life without it is Eden.
When death finally occurs, cruelly and sloppily, it is not according to plan.
About two-thirds of the way through the book, congress finally occurs, spreadeagled against a boulder on a beach, with honey and sand involved.
The company's chief executive, Thian Hoo Tan, said he believed the company was now well positioned for the information-technology industry turnaround when it finally occurs.
