This crisis-ridden country, which faces massive resource problems, matters.
And with so much else going on in this crisis-ridden region - the struggle against Islamic State in which the US and Iran are objectively on the same side and the fighting in Yemen where they are clearly not - means that taking the nuclear problem off the chess-board for a period of time is probably a helpful development.
Argo, Ben Affleck's fact-based thriller about the Iranian hostage crisis, rode to victory at the 85th Academy Awards, taking the crowning best picture Oscar to complete a night of triumph.
A stronger steel industry, more capable of riding out this crisis, could have been created by more engagement with Europe and refashioning the ecosystem in which production takes place.
What explains their subsequent divergence, with India now broadly stable and prosperous and Pakistan crisis-ridden?
California has a history of recovering from financial crises, riding the wave of national economic growth to fiscal health, and that is one reason state leaders frequently turn to stopgap solutions intended to push the problem up the road.
In addition to the failure of the Soviet Union, there was the failure of the leftist opposition to the Soviet Union, the failure of third-world liberation movements, and the continuing (though crisis-ridden) success of the capitalist economies of the west.
Crisis-ridden ING Group may have found a generous friend in the Dutch government, but European regulators could soon spoil all that.
"These usually turn out to be therapeutic elevator rides," he said knowingly, suggesting that this crisis could be resolved by the time the patient got to the I.C.U.
Watching this crisis roll on towards its fourth year, I want to ride over words like intractable with calculated action.
This crisis is different.
