Word: brinkly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN WALTER F. Mondale finally picks his running mate, one hopes this week, he will bring to a merciful close one of the saddest charades in recent political memory. Never before has a politician on the brink of such high office debased himself more before his supporters...
Everyone agrees that the most serious problem facing Malden is financial. A 1982 study by a team of University of Massachusetts, Amherst economists showed the city was teetering on the brink of financial failure because of declining Federal aid a shrinking tax base, a high demand for services and poor management...
...military relinquished power and invited Siles back from his exile in Peru. But his coalition of four left-of-center parties, including the local Communists, has bickered incessantly ever since; a series of economic mistakes, coupled with severe drought and flood, have brought the country to the brink of ruin. The inflation rate reached 328% in 1983, and could hit 2,000% this year. Although the treasury is bare and foreign banks have been calling for a solution to Bolivia's $3.4 billion foreign debt, the country has yet to take the hard measures that would permit...
...past two years, airlines have been avoiding the price wars that helped send Braniff into bankruptcy and several other carriers to the brink. But last week new skirmishes broke out. Regular coach fares between the East and West Coasts have been averaging $367 each way on United, American and Trans World Airlines. People Express, the three-year-old upstart discounter, set off the latest round of cuts by having a limited number of Boeing 747 flights between Newark and Los Angeles for $149 during the day and $119 at night. Said Larry Martin, a general manager at People...
CONVICTED. Samuel Brown, 43, ex-convict; of murder and robbery in the 1981 Brink's armored-truck holdup at a Nanuet, N.Y., mall in which a guard and two police officers were killed; in White Plains, N.Y. Brown was the last of the nine Brink's suspects in custody to be prosecuted...