The old man reached out his knobbly claw for the woman's hand, and found it, and left me alone.

An early sign was the failure of Operation Eagle Claw to rescue US hostages in Iran in 1980.

That may prevent the world economy from falling into recession.

As a result, the slide was halted, and the rebound was faster than forecasters expected.

These were being sold for about 2,000 dollars each, and they are used for bear paw soup, and also being trained, later on, to become dancing bears like the one you just saw.

And Japan is already slipping back into recession because of the earthquake.

Is the world economy on the brink of recession?

Many Africans will fall back into desperate poverty.

But even this is almost surely better than a depression.

Skates now cut into the ice instead of gliding on top of it.

The question is how to keep surveillance off the slippery slope to unaccountable snooping.

The bubble has now burst, and these economies are heading into a steep recession.

On the verge of civil war, Iraq just announced a restructuring of its foreign debt.

Circuit breakers are in place nowadays to prevent a 1929 style slide into disaster.

With American influence at low ebb, the world is in danger of sliding into a vicious cycle of escalating violence.

Assistance in economic, humanitarian or other fields may be provided at the request of a country to avoid slipping towards conflict.

A military elite favors step by step reform, but wants to protect its position and is determined to avoid a descent into chaos.

For, although the surge was important, two other factors played a critical role in bringing Iraq back from the brink.

Moreover, if peace prevents a slide into war, Hezbollah has another problem.

The word lava comes from Italian, and is probably derived from the Latin word labes which means a fall or slide.

In my statement to the Council on the November report, I spoke about the risk of sliding back into lawlessness and anarchy.

It is certainly in Russia s national interest to prevent chaos in the country s big next door neighbor.

Firstly, they must control their military commanders and reverse the slide into predatory warlordism and criminal behaviour.

If an imposed solution fails, the entire region will begin to slip into a dangerous confrontation during the first years of Barack Obama s presidency.

PARIS With the deepening of the economic crisis and the prospect of another recession looming large on the horizon, growing social inequality has become an increasingly urgent issue.

But, above all, he has tried hard to secure Republican support for his efforts to prevent the economy from disappearing into a deep recessionary hole.

Since commissioning, Dwight D. Eisenhower has participated in deployments including Operation Eagle Claw during the Iran hostage crisis in 1980, as well as the Gulf War in the 1990s, and more recently in support of U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Abdullah, perhaps earlier than most others, understood that some code of restraint was needed if the entire region was not to descend into a war of all against all.

All of Asia s powers, including China and Japan, will have to play a part in stopping Bangladesh s drift into fanaticism and chaos.

The aid that Ethiopia receives from its friends may be a small price to pay to keep Africa s second largest country from descending into chaos.

It can choose to lead the Middle East into vibrant multi sectarian democracy or slump back into corrupt local politics under foreign tutelage.

Such compromises may be the only way to stem the slide to civil war, and possibly co opt Islamists into a settlement with Israel and rapprochement with the West.

But this is the most painful way out, and it generates intense social and political instability.

As early as October 2008, when the crisis first hit, China s government adopted a comprehensive policy package designed to prevent the economy from sliding further.

Whether Iraq achieves stability or is once again ripped apart by sectarian violence now depends, as it always has, on the new political elites.

This could lead to a fiscal catastrophe for the government at the very moment when the country is attempting a complicated political transition.

If that happens, the risk of stall speed or an outright double dip recession would rise sharply in many advanced economies.

Indeed, it should be considered an indispensable strategic partner for those in the international community who want to prevent the entirety of East Africa from slipping into chaos.

With the dawn of the new century, legacy healthcare costs, higher fuel prices, and a faltering economy led to falling market shares, declining sales, and diminished profit margins.

To be sure, Bush s new strategy is highly unlikely to help Iraqis avert a slide into sectarian civil war. A temporary 16 boost in troops simply is not enough to get that job done.

Thoughtful theologians can distinguish among psycho sexual issues in practice, however, fear of a slippery slope to calamity prevails.

Moreover, US schools, particularly at the primary and secondary levels, continue to slip down the global scale, constraining Americans ability to benefit from globalization.

But many developing countries have just emerged from being overburdened with debt they do not want to go through that again.

The package may or may not prevent Spain and Portugal from becoming undone in a similar fashion, or indeed even head off an eventual Greek default.

Even with their liquidity injections, the fallout from the financial crisis has eliminated the risk of a wage price spiral that might otherwise have arisen.