And two other factors also suggest Hong Kong's currency board will weather the storm.
But meanwhile, high-end retailers and casino VIP operators will have to buckle up to weather the storm.
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McCain suggests looking at the manufacturing sector, especially firms with exposure to exports, to weather the storm.
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As a leader, you should constantly be building a team that can weather the storm when it hits.
Enough to weather the storm and wait for the flights to begin again.
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But AIG had operating properties sufficient to weather the storm if given time.
"Mexico will weather the storm, it will have to weather slower growth... but it will emerge stronger, " Mr Koehler said.
"Their capital raise in April was appropriate and timely and was enough for the company to weather the storm, " McEvoy said.
But when failures accumulate, those who believe that they can improve their basic abilities are far more likely to weather the storm.
When the economic crisis started to bite, Malaysia seemed better suited to weather the storm than virtually any of its troubled neighbors.
Although overstretched by the acquisition of BMI and two smaller airlines, Lufthansa is strong enough to weather the storm better than most.
Links with the East have allowed Guards, which hosts more than 500 matches in a season, to "weather the storm" of the downturn, Hobday said.
As for their short-range rockets, Israel should do its best to intercept them and otherwise hunker down to weather the storm of Katyushas and Qassams.
But analysts are optimistic that HP will weather the storm--and, if it does, Fiorina will continue to top the list of America's Top Businesswomen for years to come.
Resch explained that a Treasury program called Section 1603 has helped provide key incentives for the solar industry, allowing it to weather the storm that was the financial crisis.
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Moreover, while Goldman's partners can weather the storm for months until the market improves, an analyst has her immediate reputation to think of and analysts' reputations are built on timing.
Early on during the crisis it appeared that the bank would be in decent shape to weather the storm but two issues in particular dragged the bank down: the acquisitions of Countrywide and Merrill Lynch.
Sunderland managed to weather the storm and even pushed for a winner themselves, substitute Welbeck - returning from six weeks out - turning and delivering a shot that a diving Szczesny did brilliantly to turn behind.
The BBC's Gary Duffy, in Sao Paulo, says that while Brazil is better placed to weather the storm than in previous crises, there are increasing signs of unease about the potential fallout for Latin America's biggest economy.
Still, for all the alarms being raised, the mayor of Boston -- which forecasters expected would be the city hardest hit by the storm -- said he expected residents of his community and others to hunker down and weather the storm.
Also, online competitors who are currently shipping these lower dollar purchases for free are subsidizing the freight and this is not a sustainable practice, so it is only necessary for Best Buy to weather the storm until online retailers discontinue this practice.
While rising food and energy costs are forcing consumer sentiment metrics lower, with the University of Michigan consumer confidence index hitting a 16-month low in March and probably heading lower, according to Capital Economics, consumers have managed to weather the storm and keep spending going.
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Volkswagen, a much larger company that can lean on its higher-margin luxury brands and strong global operations, has been able to weather the storm more easily by cutting prices and taking market share from weaker rivals like Fiat, Peugeot, Ford Motor and General Motors.
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Pairing this with the fact that CDFIs work at a grassroots level, where they intimately know local markets, drivers, and players, they became perfectly positioned to weather the financial storm of the past several years.
And there is a modern El Nino going on, supposedly, out in the Pacific, and that can have a very large influence in the weather patterns, the storm tracks, the atmospheric waves across North America.
They're using data collected by the weather service during the storm, to try to understand the surge, try to understand the wave heights, and they're going to create a computer model, as opposed to the scale model of a city, for the storm as it came up from the south and the Gulf of Mexico, and see if they can recreate the exact conditions.
It created a bubble economy dominated by property, he adds, one less able to weather the current storm than more diversified economies like those of Singapore or Taiwan.
Still, in 2009, to ensure they had enough cash to weather the financial storm, even leading firms such as McKinsey and BCG held back a chunk of their partners' bonuses.
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