It is unclear how close the object came to the station.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

"Part of what makes this film so exciting is how close it is linked to our present and very near future.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

With a fledgling recovery gaining strength, it is easy to forget how close major industrialized nations came to economic collapse less than two years ago, an outcome that almost surely would have triggered a worldwide depression rivaling the Great Depression of the 1930s.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21