1.   Conspicuously absent was Mr Ruslan Khasbulatov, the abrasive and ambitious Speaker, whose manoeuvring led to the latest crisis.

2.   Mr Delors has been widely blamed for causing the latest crisis.

3.   An apathetic and disenfranchised public had little to say about this situation even before the latest crisis.

4.   Amtrak will apparently survive its latest fiscal crisis under a compromise reached in the closing hours of the House and Senate sessions for the year.

5.   And on Sunday, Cohen suggested that the pressure was on the United Nations and Secretary-General Kofi Annan to resolve the latest crisis.

6.   Apple faces its latest crisis this Friday.

7.   As GOP leaders grew furious, however, Democratic loyalists took heart from the hope that their president may yet get through this latest crisis.

8.   At a barber shop, a Russian barber waved off questions, unimpressed with the latest crisis at home.

9.   Because of the latest crisis, Ushakov said he had delayed a trip to Moscow in which he was going to visit his mother and his bosses.