Word: brink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Chairman Mao Tse-tung's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution finally shuddered toward an end five years ago, the machinery of government was paralyzed, the structure of the Communist Party shattered, and China teetered on the brink of anarchy. It was the leaders of the nation's armed forces who then filled the political vacuum...
...large holdings and outlawed sharecropping and usury, rice yields today are four to five times greater than in the South.) Moreover, the French exported rice to take advantage of higher prices on the world market. Coupled with the declining yields, this exportation forced the peasants to the brink of starvation in normal times; during disasters--floods or bad harvests--widespread famines swept the countryside. After the 1944 Red River flood in northern Vietnam two million people starved to death--two million victims of the land policy brought to Vietnam by the French...
...country's foremost management experts. "Well, here we were saying: 'You know Arabs. They cannot cooperate.' " The biggest block to understanding, however, was probably the fact that neither Nixon nor his top advisers-or predecessors-seemed aware that the U.S. was on the brink of running short of energy even without the Arab boycott...
Going into the fourth Sunday of the season, the Atlanta Falcons had lost two consecutive games without scoring a single touchdown. They seemed to be on the brink of disintegration. The San Francisco 49ers were winning 10-0, and now a disgruntled home-town crowd had to watch the embarrassing spectacle of two Falcons-Fullback Art Malone and Tight End Jim Mitchell-angrily slapping each other around after a muffed play. The fight symbolized the Falcons' frustration better than any statistics of futility on offense or defense...
...weeks for long sessions with party leaders, drawing on the considerable store of personal good will he has earned in Ulster in order to achieve an understanding. The agreement was finally sealed in a late evening bargaining session, though in usual Ulster fashion the pact momentarily tottered at the brink of angry dissolution...