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...they are facing facts. What they may not have anticipated is how expensive it will be to get out from under Trump's operations. Brinkmanship is the stuff that gamblers are made of, after all, and casino magnate Trump cut his teeth at the edge-of-the-cliff school of negotiations. Don't count him out yet. While he will own less at the end of these negotiations, he will also owe less, and the effect on his net worth remains to be seen. After filling an inside straight in the first round of talks, he's already halfway...
...walk to the edge of a cliff, and I describe to you how wonderful the experience of jumping off would be. I promise you that it's not dangerous--you are with me and you're safe. In your state of confusion, you allow my passionate description of the pleasure and excitement of jumping off the cliff to displace your own judgment, and you are afraid to hurt my feelings, so you jump...
...eight to ten years we are at our levy limit. And it is a dangerous place to be," said Cyr in an interview after the meeting. "It is a disaster. We need to act now. A small step this year will allow us to avoid walking off the cliff next year...
...Cliff Harrison stands in vigil with fellow Quakers on a bitter February afternoon outside Harvard Square's Au Bon Pain, tourists and townies alike interrupt their casual strolls to witness a protest for peace in the Gulf...
...panel of five leading economists who gathered in Manhattan this month for a TIME economic forum. "We have a moderate, potentially severe recession on our hands," said Allen Sinai, chief economist for the Boston Co. Economic Advisers. "The economy is showing signs of caving in, almost falling off a cliff, as so often is the case once a full-fledged recession begins." If the conditions seem particularly bleak, he noted, "that is because we are in the heart of the slide...