Word: brink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...help but weep for my country. I look around and see my brothers gunned down in the streets. Our "leaders" persist in pursuing an unjust war, and yet the Great Silent Majority remains silent. What does it take to make people see that this country is on the brink of disaster...
...scare story? Not quite. Today, the authoritative "red data book" of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources lists 835 "endangered species and subspecies" that hover on the brink of extinction. Among their habitats and situations...
...essentially strong, if its financial distortions continue much longer, it could tumble into serious difficulties. Some prominent Wall Streeters worried aloud last week that the economy stands on the brink of financial crisis. They were frankly concerned that marginal corporations, which have exhausted their cash and bank credit during the long money famine, may be unable to raise necessary funds and fall into bankruptcy...
...American city is commonly portrayed as hovering on the brink of decay and disaster. Is this picture overdrawn? Indeed it is, according to a recently published book, The Unheavenly City, that has found favor with the Nixon Administration and has aroused considerable controversy among academicians. Combining a ruthless logic of argument with an engaging tolerance of tone, Edward Banfield, 53, professor of urban government at Harvard, contends that many urban problems are largely imaginary. In fact, says Banfield, the cities are performing better than ever...
...much of the book's content will find themselves wishing that someone besides Kelman had decided to say it. One need not be a great fan of confrontation polities, the Progressive Labor Party, or communists-in-the-peace-movement to feel that Kelman has gone bouncing off the hysterical brink in attacking these bogeymen...