Crisis-from the greek "krisis"-is one of many English words we owe to the ancient Athenians. Now their m6d-ern descendants are reminding us what it really means.Just when it seemed safe to start using the word "recovery," a Greek crisis threatened to choke off the global rebound, and to terminate the very existence of the world's second-biggest currency. So serious was the situation that it took a European version of the 2008 TARP bailout of the U.S. banks to save the euro.
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