21.   Along with social and economic instability, they are among the main sources of crisis, loss of life and human misery.

22.   Along with the increased possibilities of a recession, the energy crisis was immediately followed by a new inflationary leap.

23.   Although that crisis seemed serious then, compared with the present threat to the world banking system, it was small beer.

24.   An economic crisis is looming on the horizon.

25.   Analysts agree that the company bungled its response to the crisis.

26.   And international response to financial crises is an imperative to limit the contagion of panic and financial losses.

27.   And such a world will have to get used to the social and political instability which these crises leave in their wake.

28.   And that has worsened the overall ecological crisis that engine efficiency was originally meant to solve.

29.   Another world crisis averted through the high art of diplomacy.