Word: brink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Linda E. Brink College Park...
...buffer stocks in them (TIME, May 10). By buying and selling from these stocks, the LDCS argued, consumers and producers would be able to keep prices within an agreed range, thus avoiding both the sharp increases that fuel world inflation and the steep declines that bring producers to the brink of bankruptcy...
...wish they could forget; the movie cost $41 million to make, but has taken in considerably less than that at the box office. Yet much of the movie industry is acting as if it has in fact forgotten the big-budget flops that brought several major studios to the brink of financial ruin in the 1960s. Once again, studio heads-this time backed by the resources of conglomerates that have bought up most of the studios-are pouring huge sums into feature films. Some 20 movies costing $3.5 million or more each-a generally accepted dividing line between an ordinary...
Lindsell cites the Lutheran Church -Missouri Synod as a case where "neoliberals" nearly moved an Evangelical denomination away from its traditions before conservatives regained power (thus pushing the church to the brink of schism). Lindsell sees trouble ahead in his own church body, the 12.5-million-member Southern Baptist Convention. Though no conclusive data are available, Lindsell claims that "90% of the people in the pews believe in biblical infallibility." Even so, he sees the infection of liberalism "spreading steadily...
Powerful, fractious and strike prone, Britain's labor unions have contributed heavily over the years to the sagging productivity and destructive wage inflation that have brought their nation to the brink of economic disaster. Last summer it took the threat of imminent economic collapse to win agreement by the unions to a voluntary limit on pay. This week Britain faces another crucial test of its ability to get labor cooperation in surmounting the nation's frightening economic woes. Leaders of the Trades Union Congress have set themselves a deadline of Wednesday for deciding whether to agree...