Yet no one's done more to exploit boxing's lack of centralized authority and perpetual place on the brink more to his benefit than Mayweather.
But they have become workaday and shabby, cluttered with the machinery of heightened security and menaced by airline bankruptcy — bus terminals on the brink, more like refuse-littered marketplaces than like places of worship.
The episode required extensive make-up for the guest cast, with Brink undergoing more than four and a half hours of work prior to filming for her first day on set as she had to be painted blue head to toe in addition to the normal prosthetics.
It would also contrast with the situation in Greece, which remains on the brink of default more than a year after becoming the first euro zone country to be rescued.
While the first week of games was relatively uneventful, at least two of the most high-profile games of the week, one between the Ravens and the Eagles and one between the Broncos and the Falcons, teetered on the brink of chaos more than once, marred by after-the-whistle contact and extended delays.
Brink has spent more than 40 years as an academic, and is a prolific literary critic, dramatist and translator of work as varied as Mary Poppins and Shakespeare into Afrikaans, but his artistic reputation still rests on a career as a novelist that has spanned six decades and produced more than 20 books.
The fight to end extreme poverty means ensuring that those who are lifted just over the brink – including the more than 600 million people who moved out of extreme poverty over the last decade – are resilient enough in their income, health and food security not to slide backward and take their families with them.
Genetic, environmental, and emotional components of asthma brought me to the brink of death more than once, and I am grateful for the wonderful care, medications, and technology I received.
She kept falling, contracting various infections, returning to the hospital, and ultimately faced the brink of death more than once - first with the Leukemia, and then with a bone marrow transplant (BMT).
Multimillion-dollar payments for bankers appeared inconceivable when the financial system teetered on the brink of meltdown little more than a year ago.
