“These two entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are not facing any kind of financial crisis. The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.” PeopleKindTwoProblemTermCompanyPressureCrisisFinancialEntityHousingAffordableMacsFinancial CrisisMaeAffordable Housing Author:Barney Frank
“With uncertainty in oil markets, a buildup of speculative pressures and the large U.S. current account deficit, there is a real possibility that Paulson's crisis-management skills will be tested.” RealPossibilitySkillsAccountsPressureManagementCrisisCurrentsOilUncertaintyTestedDeficitCrisis ManagementManagement Skills Author:Lawrence Summers
“Denial is the lid on our emotional pressure cooker: the longer we leave it on, the more pressure we build up. Sooner or later, that pressure is bound to pop the lid, and we have an emotional crisis.” EmotionalPressureCrisisBoundsPopsDenialSooner Or LaterCookers Author:Susan Forward
“women's entry into the public sphere can be seen not merely as the result of contemporary economic pressures, the high rate of divorce, or the success of the feminist movement, but rather as a profound evolutionary response to a pervasive cultural crisis. Feminine principles are entering the public realm because we can no longer afford to restrict them to the private domestic sphere, nor allow a public culture obsessed with Warrior values to control human destiny if we are to survive.” IfsHumansValuesCultureWomenResultsPrinciplesDestinyEconomicMovementPressureCrisisProfoundResponseRateFeministDivorceContemporaryWarriorObsessedRealmsFeminineSpheresEnteringSocial ChangeEntryFeminist Movement Author:Sally Helgesen
“After having been lost in the world, suddenly, through the pressure of suffering, the realization comes that the answers may not be found out there in worldly attainment and in the future. That's an important point for many people to reach. That sense of deep crisis-when the world as they have known it, and the sense of self that they have known that is identified with the world, become meaningless.” PeopleWorldMayImportantSelfSufferingFoundLostAnswersKnownPressureCrisisRealizationMeaninglessWorldlyAttainmentSense Of Self Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Our country today is at a cross-point of several crises that were triggered by three groups of causes: the effects of the 2008 world crisis, the external political and economic pressure, and the internal problems and constraints that have built up in our economy” WorldCountryProblemTodayPoliticalThreeCausesEconomyGroupsEconomicEffectsBuiltCrossesPressureCrisisOur CountryInternalsConstraints Author:Dmitry Medvedev
“German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces a critical test in her political career. Merkel has been under increasing pressure over the European migrant crisis, and recent polls suggest Angela Merkel, who's been the German leader for more than a decade, could lose an election in her political home state.” Has BeensStatesHomeFacesPoliticalLosesLeaderCareersTestsPressureElectionCrisisCriticalDecadesPollsMigrantsAngelaHome State Author:Rachel Martin
“[The immigrant] becomes a kind of insurance policy against the effects of the recession. By blaming him, the pressure valve is regulated in times of crisis ... What we have now is a public mindset of us versus them, and an overall anti-immigrant climate that is both troubling and morally reprehensible.” KindEffectsPolicyPressureCrisisBlameClimateMindsetImmigrantsVersusRecessionsTimes Of CrisisValveInsurance Policy Author:Andrew Lam
“Quite frankly, I have to admit that with regard to the enormous financial assets and funds of Russian leaders in Western banks and on stock markets, the chances for the West to exert influence on Russia are quite low. I doubt that Western leaders are willing to exert pressure. I would not exclude an intervention in case of a crisis.” ChanceLeaderCasesDoubtInfluenceWillingLowsPressureRegardCrisisWestWesternFinancialRussiaEnormousFundAssetsIntervention Author:Garry Kasparov
“You know, Miss Holly, you look very dramatic like that, backlit by the fire. Very attractive, if I may say so. I know you shared a moment passionne with Artemis which he subsequently fouled up with his typical boorish behavior. Let me just throw something out there for you to consider while we're chasing the probe: I share Artemis's passion but not his boorishness. No pressure; just think about it. This was enough to elicit a deafening moment of silence even in the middle of a crisis, which Orion seemed to be blissfully unaffected by.” IfsThinkingKnowsLooksMayEnoughMomentsPassionSilenceFireShareMiddleMissingBehaviorLet MePressureCrisisAttractiveDramaticTypicalChasingArtemisHolliesNo PressureMoment Of SilenceOrion Author:Eoin Colfer
“Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US-Japan negotiations, the military and economic pressures would only force Japan into further crisis if time were allowed to pass in vain.” IfsSuccessForceEconomicMilitaryPossibilityPressureCrisisVainJapanNegotiationCongratulations Author:Hideki Tojo
“The advantages of having decisions made by groups are often lost because of powerful psychological pressures that arise when the members work closely together, share the same set of values and, above all, face a crisis situation that puts everyone under intense stress” MadeTogetherFacesValuesLostDecisionPowerfulResponsibilitySituationGroupsShareMembersEthicsAdvantageStressPressureCrisisAriseIntensePsychologicalDecisions MadeBusiness Ethics Author:Irving Janis
“The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of everything. That is, historical capitalism is in crisis precisely because, in pursuing the endless accumulation of capital, it is beginning to approximate that state of being Adam Smith asserted was 'natural' to man but which has never historically existed. The 'propensity [of humanity] to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another' has entered into domains and zones previously untouched, and the pressure to expand commodification is relatively unchecked.” MenFirstsStatesHumanityNaturalOne ThingCapitalismAspectPressureCrisisFundamentalsHistoricalEndlessZoneAdamTruckDomainAccumulationPropensityCommodification Author:Immanuel Wallerstein
“The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own.” TwoWarAblePurposeNationsCasesWeaponsPressureCrisisNuclearNuclear WeaponsAggravationDiffusion Author:Herman Kahn
“We must alert and organise the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our environmental crises - exploding population growth and wasteful consumption of irreplaceable resources. Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today.” PeopleWorldTwoProblemTodayFacesCausesGrowthLeaderStepsResourcesRootsPressureCrisisEnvironmentalPopulationSolveConsumptionOur EnvironmentOverconsumptionWorld LeaderExplodingIrreplaceablePopulation GrowthOverpopulationRoot CauseEnvironmental ProblemsWorld PopulationEnvironmental CrisisPopulation Problem Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau