Finally global economies, which had reached the point of looking over the abyss into a potential second global Great Depression, began to pull back from the brink.

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Even devout believers walk a tightrope over the abyss.

NEWYORKER: The Rebellion Within

The exuberantly composed and furiously performed scenes play out, in bars and streets and beds and bathrooms, at the perilously measured pace of a tightrope walker dancing over the abyss, and the three actors lurch and shamble with the vestigial grace of the athletes these commuters once longed to be.

NEWYORKER: Husbands

This was the first rate cut since December 2008, when the global economy was staring over the edge of the abyss.

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Up in the Rockies, Gabe Walker (Sylvester Stallone) and his friend Hal Tucker (Michael Rooker) dangle over an abyss, while the director, Renny Harlin, speeds up the editing until we giggle with nerves.

NEWYORKER: Cliffhanger

But the beleaguered Jews were disunited too: secular, socialist, non-Zionist Jews like him, with ardent Zionists and communists, all bickering over tactics at the edge of the abyss.

ECONOMIST: Marek Edelman

Mixed reports over Korea Development Bank's interest in Lehman has led the brokerage firm to fall further into the economic abyss.

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