The problem with brinkmanship is that, sometimes, one does go over the brink.

Everyday in the news, we hear about credit crunch happening globally that has even put those giant corporations down on their knees and even collapse.

Dignity or Decline?

Divided We Fall

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Edge

From Hubris to Nemesis in the EU

Stock Markets Fear of Falling

Now let's imagine that you were an economist in 1929, trying to forecast future growth for the United States, not knowing that the economy was about to go off a cliff, not knowing that we were about to enter the greatest economic disaster certainly in the 20th century.

Muddling Out of Freefall

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

He stood on the edge of the cliff.

They camped at the water's edge.

Pakistan on the Precipice

Return to the Abyss

Rockets will, no doubt, again be launched against us.

Nonetheless, critics fear the slippery slope.

Europe on the Verge of a Political Breakdown

My pencil fell off the edge of my desk.

Back to the Brink in Ukraine

Northeast Asia on the Brink

Russia is moving toward precipice.

They make their way on the edges of society.

And today, that fall hasn't stopped I'm still falling.

Yes, we have watched the humiliating fall of Wall Street s masters of the universe.

And every time I approached the corner or the curb I would panic.

He's at the sharp knife edge of this problem.

That could take all of us to the edge of a slippery slope.

To the Brink and Back with Iran

YR It was about 20 years ago when I discovered free falling.

In reality, machinations by the intelligence agencies also played a part.

Is France s Republican Monarchy, to borrow a phrase from Jean François Revel, about to be overthrown?

But the evidence that we used to do that was falling down on every square meter of the Earth for billions of years before that, and will continue to fall on for billions of years afterwards. And the same is true for all the other sciences.

The men sat on the edge of the boat and women at the bottom.

The shopkeeper, however, insists that the bird is only stunned by the fall.

Indeed, it can be argued that the political dominos are already falling.

But then a wide range of inherently different countries seemed to line up like a row of dominos.

On February 27, 1964, the government of Italy requested aid in preventing the tower from toppling.

NEW YORK The best that can be said for 2009 is that it could have been worse, that we pulled back from the precipice on which we seemed to be perched in late 2008, and that 2010 will almost surely be better for most countries around the world.

Christmas day it was out on the shelf edge.

That is the precipice on which Greece stands today.

China is dangerously near a crisis point.

BERKELEY Europe is again on the precipice.

MADRID Once again, Europe has peered into the abyss.