The empire continued to grow with no end in sight.

And finally, at the end of the journey, I could see this thin little yellow line across the horizon.

Whoever wins, a fiscal cliff looms at the end of 2012.

Now we are already at the second rung of intervention, and there seems to be no end in sight.

Thus, while the Likud referendum seems to have left the Israeli Palestinian dispute at yet another impasse, both sides are on the verge of enormous changes.

Disaster beckoned.

Taking Hope in the Long View

The future's in the air

This led to real alarm among policymakers whenever a threat to confidence appeared (as when the dot com bubble burst at the end of the 1990 s).

Is a deal in the cards?

Last August, fighting to the north of the provincial capital Goma flared up again, provoking a major humanitarian crisis that has no end in sight.

Day and night The sun at the North Pole is continuously above the horizon during the summer and continuously below the horizon during the winter.

In the same way, ships that are in reality so far away that they should not be visible above the geometric horizon may appear on the horizon or even above the horizon as superior mirages.

Other challenges loom.

But no toilets in sight.

This circle gradually rises from near the horizon just after the vernal equinox to its maximum elevation (in degrees) above the horizon at summer solstice and then sinks back toward the horizon before sinking below it at the autumnal equinox.

Look at the distant horizon!

This defines a future horizon , which limits the events in the future that we will be able to influence.

A major slowdown seems to be looming.

Other big legal and regulatory costs loom.

Moreover, several risks lie ahead.

The ocean extends to the distant horizon.

This is what we dream about. Its individuality, demonstrated in the skyline. It's resilience.

Everyone feels that a seismic shift is under way.

But, beyond today s tempest, there is light on the horizon.

Finally, serious geopolitical risks loom large.

The looming known unknowns are plentiful.

All of this amounted to a human and economic disaster in the making.

There is no stable solution in sight for Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

For a short moment, there was reason to hope that peace was at hand.

Even if the US avoids the full fiscal cliff of 4.5 of GDP that is looming at the end of the year, it is highly likely that a fiscal drag amounting to 1.5 of GDP will hit the economy in 2013.

Many see currency wars looming.

Nor does a global solution to the challenge of climate change appear any closer.

And Europe would avert the looming depression.

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A showdown also looms over tax policy.

So I do not believe that a lasting rift looms.

Communism, like the horizon, was always just beyond reach.

It has seen off all of its challengers, and there are no new ones in sight.

Alas, that prospect is not yet even a glimmer on the horizon.

For them, as for some 50,000 other refugees stuck across Greece, there is still no end in sight.

So indeed I call to witness the evening twilight ,

So by oath of the late evening s light .

No ! I swear by the twilight

I swear by the afterglow of sunset ,