Word: brink
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Suspicion. The committee's decision was both tactical and practical. Mills recognized that welfare systems throughout the country are on the brink of collapse and need more than simple repairs. Also, he was caught off guard by the Nixon message, and suspected a political trap. When HEW Secretary Robert Finch began attacking the Ways and Means Committee in public statements for delaying the welfare bill, Mills came to believe that the Administration, with an eye to this year's congressional and gubernatorial elections, was more interested in a campaign issue than welfare reform. Mills thought that Nixon would...
...vote margin of victory in last November's presidential campaign-a feat that they quite reasonably believe could only have been achieved by widespread vote buying. They fear, moreover, that his pre-election spending on roads and school buildings has brought the nation to the brink of bankruptcy. The peso, recently freed to find its own level on the world currency market, has shrunk in value from 26? to 14?. As a result, Filipinos face the unhappy prospect of rising inflation and rising unemployment...
...week's end, after listening carefully to declarations of support from across the Democratic spectrum, O'Brien was on the brink of agreeing to return to the chairmanship provided that no significant opposition arises. If he says yes, it is virtually certain that he will be elected chairman when the Democratic National Committee meets in Washington March 5. O'Brien will have to leave a political-consulting firm he recently founded, following a brief stint as the president of a New York brokerage house, and slow the work on a book on his years with Kennedy...
Harvard, momentarily, seemed to be on the brink of the same mid-game slump that wasted a 4-1 lead at Canton last winter and forced the Crimson into an overtime tie. But at 2:13 of the second period. DeMichele beat Larry goalie Allen Howes on a breakaway to reopen the margin...
...centuries ago, their mercantile genius and drive gave the American colonists the world's highest standard of living. The nation since then has grown complacently accustomed to being the richest on earth. Yet the U.S. has rarely been at ease with its wealth, and even now, on the brink of a trillion-dollar economy, it has not fully reconciled the desire for private affluence, the requirements of international responsibilities, and the tremendous need for social and environmental reforms...