It is not too late to pull back from the brink of this slippery slope.

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But the politicians have begun to pull back from the brink.

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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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In Sudan, after years of war and thousands of deaths, we call on both North and South to pull back from the brink of violence and choose the path of peace.

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However, it may be impossible and even politically counterproductive for Congressional Republicans to pull back from the brink and anger the base voters whose energy and money have put them in office.

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He said financial measures pursued by the U.S. over the past 18 months have helped the global economy pull "back from the brink of a depression, " and he touted recent international efforts to combat global warming and other environmental threats.

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But the high euro and slow growth on the Continent are putting extra strain on the U.S. to pull the world back from the brink of a new recession.

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In the financial crisis of 2007-2008, it took a massive coordinated effort by global central banks to pull the world back from the brink of what would have been a total global financial collapse.

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Many of our economic actions, our interventions, whether it's housing, financial markets, certainly the Recovery Act as we're talking about today, along with actions of the Fed, have certainly helped to pull the economy back from the brink, such that the macro-economy is in a much better place than it was.

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We also passed a Recovery Act to pull our economy back from the brink.

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Mr Montezemolo knows all about business turnarounds: he rescued Ferrari and has helped to pull Fiat Auto back from the brink.

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So a friend introduced them to Basic Training for Couples -- a class that had helped pull their friends' marriage back from the brink of divorce.

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