On the contrary, return us like for like, remembering that this is that very crisis in which he who lends aid is most a friend, and he who opposes is most a foe.
But as financial watchers here point out, with demand falling abroad, this is a transition that needs to happen slowly to avoid precipitating the very crisis Korea's trying to avoid.
Even the president's supporters began to fret about Lincoln's "unfortunate habit of joking" at "the very crisis of our existence".
And now the political right is trying to exploit that very crisis, using it to remove one of the few remaining checks on oligarchic influence.
Growth could slow further and provoke the very crisis its leaders thought they had managed to duck.What that might mean politically is hard to forecast.
The strands of this dangerous farce are being drawn together and it is anyone's guess whether Haiti can survive this very real crisis, which has echoes in history.
At its summit of artistic achievement, Hollywood had mastered the allusive representation, the distillation, of the very crises and horrors that the studios wouldn't show directly.
The subtext of the interview, and in the memoirs each has written about that period, is the but-for's — that is, all the ways this very bad crisis could have been much, much worse.
"With the apology and the promise of never again violating a brother country, we have overcome this very grave crisis," said Correa, in comments that were broadcast live across much of Latin America.
"Ultimately it is the combination of growth-enhancing structural reforms and consistent fiscal consolidation that will firmly re-establish investor confidence and ensure that the Irish and Portuguese people can put this very hard crisis behind them and move on," Mr. Rehn said.
