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- A dotcom highflyer that came perilously close to crashing on Wall Street in 2001, Amazon is up once againthanks to Bezos.
- CHINESE TROOPS LAUNCHING missiles that splash down perilously close to Taiwan and put its armed forces on high alert.
- For years, small numbers of these bouncy little roadsters had tanks of liquid propane hung perilously behind the rear bumper.