1.   Now, after more than a year of severe crisis, boom times are back.

2.   Politics, healthcare, and public education are all in severe crisis.

3.   Salmon farmers are warning of the severe crisis facing the industry.

4.   The notion that the Social Security system is facing a severe crisis is a vast and cynical overstatement.

5.   Crown Prince Hassan of Jordon said his country was facing a severe economic crisis.

6.   An economy may suffer a severe financial crisis, then recover and grow as rapidly as ever.

7.   And so, in addition to the emotional ordeal that they face, she and her husband are also struggling with a severe financial crisis.

8.   Both countries have had severe financial crises, which left them with sick banking systems and massive overcapacity after years of artificially cheap capital.

9.   A university administrator with little political experience, he promised to lead the country out of a severe crisis triggered by a tottering economy and a growing leftist insurgency.

10.   Above all, they say, the country is confronting a moral crisis more severe than any it has ever faced before.