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As governor in the early '60s, while his colleagues in Alabama and Arkansas were leading the nation to the brink of civil war over civil rights, Hollings guided South Carolina--very slowly, it must be admitted--toward peaceful integration.
It was a part of humanity's desire to step back from the brink and cool the madness.
Lastly, there is a growing recognition, driven by a variety of worldwide trends and pressing long-term fiscal challenges, that the federal government is on the brink of an enormous transformation in what the government does, how it does business, and, in some cases, who does the government's business.
Written details were not available at press time (and USAT notes that U.S. officials aren't sure that Annan could speak frankly about it to anyone while he remained in Iraq where phone lines are not secure), but the dailies are reporting that Hussein has agreed to open his presidential palaces to U.N. weapons inspectors--the sticking point that has brought the U.S. to the brink of warfare.
These failures frightened investors, whose attempts to pull their money out led to more bank failures; the desperate attempts of surviving banks to raise cash caused both a credit crunch (pushing many businesses that had seemed financially sound only months before over the brink) and plunging stock prices, bankrupting still more financial houses.