Word: brinkly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hospitals are at the brink of disaster," William Wane, president of Bon Secours Hospital, said at the rally. "Enough is enough, we're tired of being a whipping post for the financial ills of our society," he said...
...action starts in 1970 when heavily armed urban guerrillas rob a Brink's armored truck at a Massachusetts shopping mall. Two years later the merry band empties a Wells Fargo van in the same general area. "We're not dealing here & with a group of retards, my friends," says Inspector John D. Richards of the state police. "These are sharp minds we've got on our hands, making these withdrawals...
...negotiating with the guerrillas than in defeating them. Most recently she annoyed the military by extending a rebel amnesty program by six months. Many soldiers fear that the Communist insurgency and Aquino's dithering over such matters as land reform and gasoline prices are pushing the country to the brink of anarchy...
...remain mired in poverty. Their war-scarred children, struggling with a new language and culture, often drop out of school. Further, the majority of Asian-American students do not reach the starry heights of the celebrated few, and an alarming number are pushing themselves to the emotional brink in their quest for excellence. Many also detect signs of resentment among non-Asians, an updated "yellow peril" fear. In particular, the country's best universities are accused of setting admissions quotas to restrict the numbers of Asian Americans on campus...
...Mineola, Long Island. "You're exhausted, and you are dealing with two kinds of criteria for how you act." To add to the burdens, today's hospital patients tend, as a group, to be more sick than ever before. Technology has enabled extremely ill patients to linger on the brink of death for days at a time. And changes in Medicare reimbursement rules have led hospitals to release patients earlier than they used to, so that almost every bed is occupied by a very sick person...