The system was rescued from collapse, but has since edged up to the abyss again.
Requiring bar applicants to complete 50 hours of pro bono service is a step up from the abyss.
There's no quicker way to undercut the market's confidence in the U.S. government than for it walk up to the abyss of default.
The Rangers have almost climbed all the way up from the abyss, and now, with one game to play — 3 p.m. Sunday in Philadelphia — after going 7-1-1 in their previous nine, they have given themselves a 50-50 chance of making the playoffs.
He directed "Little Big Man" (1970), a Vietnam-aware story with Dustin Hoffman as a possibly white survivor of Custer's Last Stand, and the great, despairing "Night Moves" (1975), with Gene Hackman as a private detective who ends up circling the abyss, a no-exit comment on the post-1968, post-Watergate times.
He had tried to comfort Jacqueline McQuade and her family, who he said were facing up to the "abyss of their loss" after her 18-year-old daughter, student Erin, and her grandparents, Jack and Lorraine Sweeney, all from Dumbarton, were fatally injured in the accident.
From the outset of the book, it's clear that Doughty has no intention of shrouding the realities of mortuary life from the reader; the opening chapter details her inaugural day in the job, and the first corpse she shaves: "His eyes, staring up into the abyss, had gone flat like deflated balloons.
You lived on a pedestal for me then, the driven diver who climbedBack up from the abyss, Venus on a seashell with a daggerIn her hands.I had to look, and followed your tracks in the poemsCut by suffering.Aren't they all?We're in the apocalyptic age of addiction and forgetting.It's worse now.
By his choice to forgive, he raises himself up from the abyss of victimization.
