Word: brinkly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sides did not hesitate to attack. A Roman Catholic spokesman called the practice of AID "morally unacceptable," while a newspaper columnist denounced restrictions on pregnancy as "ludicrously inconsistent." But unless such differences are settled, warned Sir John Peel, former president of the British Medical Association, society will confront "the brink of something almost like the atomic bomb...
...after the fall of Dictator Idi Amin Dada. They contend that the government of President Apollo Milton Obote, whom Amin deposed in 1971 and who returned to power in 1980, has caused the deaths of as many as 100,000 Ugandan civilians and brought another 150,000 to the brink of starvation in a ruthless campaign to wipe out guerrillas. "We had hoped that the country would continue to make progress away from the terrible Idi Amin years," said U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights Elliott Abrams during a congressional hearing last week. "But in recent months repeated...
...their apolitical status and by the recalcitrance of the regime that Viet Nam had installed. Even their successes, says Shawcross, sometimes proved tragically double-edged. Within two years of the Kampuchean government's 1979 announcement that a famine had pushed more than 2 million people to the brink of starvation, the West poured in more than $600 million worth of supplies. Up to four-fifths of the shipments never reached the hollow-eyed, malarial civilians who needed them most. Some of the rice remained stockpiled in warehouses, some was simply lost. Most was intercepted by Thai soldiers, appropriated...
Some utilities are approaching the brink...
...voted to stop construction on a nuclear project that is already $3.25 billion over budget, while local companies and state officials debated whether to save the plant. In New York, nearly 4,000 maintenance workers went on strike over wages against troubled Long Island Lighting, which is on the brink of default, the first ever in the 74-year history of the utility. Lilco Chairman William Catacosinos has bluntly stated that the company could be "forced into involuntary bankruptcy" next week...