Lessons from the Fiscal Cliff

The bus went over the cliff.

We stood on the brink of a cliff.

Tom pushed Mary off the cliff.

Tom pushed Mary off the edge of the cliff.

Tom almost fell over the cliff.

I almost fell off the cliff.

I almost fell off the cliff.

While you were trembling On the brink

Another step, and you will fall down the precipice.

The bus fell off the cliff, killing all 10 aboard.

Unlike us, they won t fall off the cliff.

All of a sudden, the vehicle veered into a ditch and fell over a cliff.

Unlike us, they won't fall off the cliff.

But the thing is, the coyote runs off the cliff right after him.

Sawyer drops the case off a cliff, but it still doesn't open.

So if you suspend a ball near a cliff it moves a little bit toward the cliff.

roads or on sidewalks because they cannot be licensed or insured as a vehicle in B.C.

After falling off the cliff, the buffalo carcasses were processed at a nearby camp.

Global markets are well aware of the danger of the United States falling over the fiscal cliff, and are watching nervously.

First, America s mini deal on taxes has not steered it fully away from the fiscal cliff.

And we're coming over a cliff, and at the top of that cliff, dinosaurs had basically taken over.

The American people, taken as a whole, when it comes to these issues, to fiscal issues, are moderate, pragmatic centrists.

But the most important part of the deal to avert the fiscal cliff was the restoration of the efficient payroll tax.

We may have been dragging each other off a cliff, but we were all definitely going in the same direction.

NEW YORK In the shadow of the euro crisis and America s fiscal cliff, it is easy to ignore the global economy s long term problems.

GENEVA The trouble with brinkmanship of the type now being played out over Iran s nuclear program is that it is so easy to fall over the cliff.

If we have a positive view about the future then we may be able to accelerate through that turn, instead of careening off a cliff.

According to legend, a young Blackfoot wanted to watch the buffalo plunge off the cliff from below, but was buried underneath the falling buffalo.

In fact, you're not even allowed to stand where this gentleman is standing, at the foaming, slippery waters at the threshold.

Endangered animals such as the green turtle ( Chelonia mydas ) and the Hawksbill turtle ( Eretmochelys imbracata ) nest on the beach at the foot of the cliffs.

In fact, there's a fence quite upstream of this threshold, beyond which you are in a danger zone.

CAMBRIDGE As the world economy tumbles off the edge of a precipice, critics of the economics profession are raising questions about its complicity in the current crisis.

This week began with tragedy in St. Vincent when a bus plunged off a cliff and into the sea on Monday, killing several children.

Simply put, it would be suicidal for Russia, having itself just stepped back from the brink of territorial disintegration, to build its strength on the collapse of its neighbor.

The water makes a turn at Kolpashevo, and every year it eats away a few feet of a sand cliff there, inching closer and closer to the homes on streets named after Lenin and Dzerzhinsky .

But if that is the benchmark, we could say that jumping off a cliff is the best way to get down from a mountain after all, the descent has been stopped.

Luckily, there has never been a better time for the West particularly the EU to nudge Ukraine back from the brink.

Scores of protesters downloaded FireChat in an effort to maintain communication during the protest in case of a network shutdown, despite the inherent security vulnerabilities that the app carries.

In the US, Obama s re election has led some to believe that much needed policy reforms will bring the country back from the brink of the fiscal cliff and ignite a new era of growth.

Iran and Syria, which have played a spoiler role in Iraq up to now, may also now be anxious to find a way to pull the country back from the brink. Bush still refuses to talk to either of them, and has lately been having US troops arrest Iranian agents in Iraq.

Iran and Syria, which have played a spoiler role in Iraq up to now, may also now be anxious to find a way to pull the country back from the brink.

In pretty much every episode of this cartoon, there's a moment where the coyote is chasing the roadrunner and the roadrunner runs off a cliff, which is fine he's a bird, he can fly.

If the world has not fallen off the protectionist precipice during the crisis, as it did during the 1930 s, much of the credit must go the social programs that conservatives and market fundamentalists would like to see scrapped.

I don't know about a fiscal cliff, but I know there's an educational cliff that we are walking over right this very second, and if we allow folks to continue this foolishness about saying we can't afford this