Living in extreme poverty and is now on brink of starvation.
The Pacers took a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series, and will try to move on brink of advancing at home in Game 4 on Tuesday night.
And that required some steps that were, frankly, unpopular -- steps like stabilizing a financial system that was on the brink of collapse, and intervening in an auto industry that was on the brink of extinction.
Then there comes a whole tranche of corporate sponsored activity that teeters on the brink of lobbying: conferences with senior EU officials as speakers, but which are organised on behalf of big sponsors who send executives to mingle and meet the right contacts.
Debt pressure on Italy, Ireland, Spain and Portugal which are all also on the brink of defaulting on their debts will grow.
Despite their eight-point deficit, the Rhinos created a sustained spell of pressure on the brink of half time, but Jordan Tansey spurned a gilt-edged chance to bring Leeds to within two points of regular season champions.
Come October 15 it will be 50 years since the start of the Cuban missile crisis, when the U.S. and the Soviets were on the brink of nuclear annihilation for 13 days as a result of the Soviets trying to build missile bases on the island of Cuba.
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Human activity, however, especially in the form of agriculture, deforestation, hunting and pollution, has inexorably reduced the numbers of these species, leaving many of them teetering on the brink of extinction.
Millions of people still sit on the brink of foreclosure and millions more are struggling to just sell their homes.
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In Thomas Doyle's Magritte-like miniature landscapes under glass domes, tiny clapboard houses teeter on the brink of sinkholes or perch precariously on cliffs.
The next time a firm the size of AIG finds itself on the brink of failure there will be a plan to pay its creditors.
But it is hard not to conclude that the Parisians have had the better deal: the paintings on display reveal all the subtle sophistication of Fra Angelico's art, lively survivors of a spiritual age on the brink of discovery.
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We were in the midst of an economy that was on the brink of collapse.
They were inspired by Christian rebel groups in the south of Sudan, who were on the brink of gaining partial autonomy after fighting for two decades.
The pharmaceutical industry, despite a golden age of biology that has unraveled mysteries of the genetic code and yielded miracle drugs that save thousands of lives, may be on the brink of a backlash.
The pharmaceutical industry, despite a golden age of biology that has unraveled mysteries of the genetic code and yielded miracle drugs that save thousands of lives, may be on the brink of getting hit by a backlash.
It seems like dozens of global economies that were on the brink of an abyss only a year ago, but are now pulled well back from the edge, are being held there by intertwined strands of hope, with each one that stretches too far or breaks giving the rest an unsettling lurch back toward the abyss.
On it are some of the biggest names in entertainment, sports' most branded athletes and businessmen on the brink of making it very big.
Yahoo was the first and best at creating this sense of place, and now it stands on the brink of becoming the dominant player once again, simply by staying put.
Thanks to the unraveling of the human genome, we are on the brink of an era of narrowly targeted, genetically geared therapies tailored to just small slices of the patient population.
At the time, the super-sized reptiles were common, but the introduction of wild goats, which ate the vegetation that formed their diet, and the hunting habits of passing sailors -- left them on the brink of extinction.
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In March 2009, during the worst of the financial crisis, the company was on the brink of bankruptcy.
Mr. RORY OLSON (Chief Executive Officer, Stock-Trak): During the peak of the crisis, when AIG was teetering on the brink of this massive disaster, you had survivors that were shorting it.
In other words, the investment market that had looked to be in full-blown recovery at the end of the second quarter appears to be teetering on the brink of a cold shutdown.
He was on the brink of tears because he was afraid of being left on his own, and afraid, above all, of going to Paris and confronting the mystery waiting for him there.
This sort of election-eve scandal is like a volcano on the brink of eruption.
"It's about this world of beauty and love and complexity that's on the brink of destruction, " he says.
Last month, near the small town of Ajo, Borstar agents found two Mexican men on the brink of death under a mesquite bush.
Meanwhile, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research said the UK was on the brink of its first full year of recession since 1991.
Pompey are on the brink of relegation to the Championship, having been deducted nine points on 17 March for going into administration.
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