This lessor of container ships was trading at just 0.22 times its book value in early 2010 amid fears that its top customer, France's CMA CGM, was on the brink of bankruptcy.

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France has a weak innovation sector, and its economy is stagnant, teetering on the brink of debt crisis.

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Greece teetered on the brink of default and the contagion spread to Italy and eventually France part of the core of the euro zone.

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McKinnon was on the brink of extradition in August 2008, when the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, refused to reconsider the decision to send him to the United States, effectively clearing the way for his transfer.

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