Word: brink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...came the relative political torpor of the '20s, followed by the fierce activity of the '30s and '40s, the quietism of the '50s, then the eruptions of the '60s and early '70s. After the introversion of the mid-and later '70s, Schlesinger believes, we may now be on the brink of an explosively creative time. Says Schlesinger: "Two things happen in periods of inactivity and negativism. The national batteries get recharged, and the problems we neglect pile up until they threaten to become unmanageable...
...sudden decision to normalize relations with China was another bold stroke beyond convention. His skillful orchestration of the Vienna summit, his firm but tender treatment of the ailing Leonid Brezhnev, appeared to signal that he was now trained and toughened and on the brink of stepping out of mediocrity...
...Ugandan exiles and Tanzanian soldiers, has taken refuge in Libya, along with two of his wives, about 20 of his children and at least one concubine. Behind him, as TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief David Wood discovered during a recent visit, the deposed dictator left a country on the brink of economic and political bankruptcy. Wood's report...
...hopes for geopres-surized gas-squeezing out large amounts of methane that is mixed in with sea water in mammoth caverns along the coasts of Louisiana and Texas. The $3-per-bbl. tax credit, now proposed by the Administration, would bring Colorado's oil shale to the brink of profitability. In sum, says Ketelsen, "If we properly develop the energy sources we have in the Americas, we could end up in a strong position and have a very exciting two or three decades...
...could easily be the plot to an episode of "Medical Center," but such situations have led to a real-life drama currently playing in the courts and hospitals of Massachusetts. Due to recent technological and medical advances that enable doctors to keep patients on the brink of death alive and to treat with limited success the previously incurable, doctors and lawyers are for the first time tackling the question, "Who, if anyone, should pull the plug?" In the case of an incompetent patient--such as the very young, the unconscious, or the mentally retarded--who should take on the awesome...