Word: brinkly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet Union, the situation is quite different. Soviet politicians must live with the fear that Chernobyl generated, and it is possible that this accident triggered a change in their thinking about the contamination that would result from nuclear war. The Soviets are scared. They have been to the brink of hell and want to walk away...
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Novelist Andre Brink (Knowledge of the Night), some of whose work has been banned in South Africa, agrees: "If faced with the ultimate choice between sharing and going under, the Masada complex need not prevail. There is still a chance -- small and diminishing rapidly -- of entering into the kind of dialectic with the present which may open up the future." Frederik van Zyl Slabbert was leader of the official opposition, the Progressive Federal Party, until he resigned in disgust last year, so his criticisms are hardly new. But he is also a former professor of sociology and thus well tuned...
...nodded in agreement, but added, "I guess this leadership thing just gets to me sometimes. The world is perched on the brink of oblivion, commodity prices are down and the Russian sitcom program still hasn't taken off after 20 years...
...first indication that this would not be a typical game for the Crimson came even before the opening face-off. Taking the place in the starting line-up of the five players who had led Harvard to the brink of a national championship were third-line forwards Tod Hartje, Pete Chiarelli and Craig Taucher, and defensemen Jerry Pawloski and Butch Cutone...