1.   The crack-up of personal confidence, the sheer bloody hell of facing every simple Decision as a major crisis.

2.   Recent economic performance suggests that a major crisis is at hand.

3.   The government is in the midst of a major crisis.

4.   ...the first major crisis of the post-Cold War era.

5.   This limitation has only been seen as a major crisis by Philips since the emergence of DVI compression-decompression.

6.   If a major crisis occurred the United States might find itself sorely embarrassed and perhaps ultimately drawn into the affray.

7.   Despite the Soviet desire to avoid a major crisis in the Far East, much bridge-building was undoubtedly necessary between East and West.

8.   Although the SEC and Congress will get involved when a major crisis arises, there is no government agency regulating the accounting industry on a day-to-day basis.

9.   An alliance with Turkey could go a long way toward neutralizing Syria in any major crisis.

10.   An Israeli newspaper published the photos, defying a censorship order and touching off a major crisis in Shin Bet.