But in reality, the quiet crisis caused by inadequate community care has persisted since the mid-1950's, when states began to empty their pscyhiatric hospitals.
Our report described a "quiet crisis" among government employees.
This is where the quiet political crisis becomes apparent: there is no credible opposition to Salmond.
But you know there's a quiet crisis which doesn't get the headlines.
This quiet crisis is a product of three gaps now plaguing American society.
Few of them know that the counselor-comic faces his own quiet crisis.
Here's Ed Miliband talking about the theme's of this year's conference, and the "quiet crisis" facing families.
He will also offer himself as the spokesman for the law-abiding silent majority, claiming: "There is a quiet crisis which does not get the headlines.
It is a quiet fiscal crisis, compared with the the city's collapse of the mid-1970's.
What was once a quiet crisis has become a quiet success.