Word: brinkly
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...THIS WOMAN IS ON THE VERGE, I SINcerely hope she is teetering on the brink of obscurity, where she belongs. I am amazed that otherwise intelligent and accomplished politicos can fawn over a person of such small discernment, limited experience, vacuous observation and rare rudeness. JANICE PETERSON Santa Barbara, California...
There is an increasing trend toward elitism within capitalist America. Slowly, doors of opportunity are being closed to people who do not have the economic and educational means to open them alone. Programs such as Medicare and welfare are on the brink of extinction, and America is appearing more and more apathetic...
...four months, all sides would be meeting with a real cease-fire in effect and at least the broad outlines of a settlement agreed on. But it was precisely because all concerned were forced then to peer into a terrifying abyss that they began pulling back from the brink...
...would do well to heed. Something has come unfastened in the West, and everybody has guns. "By circling the wagons, they see it's just them against the world," says the Cato Institute's Hess. He fears, he says, that the owner of some marginal ranch pushed to the brink by changing rules may turn desperate. "Someone's going to carry a gun, someone's going to shoot, someone's going to bomb a Forest Service office," he says. "And God knows what's going to happen then...
...puzzle, they must spend long hours in the field searching for further clues. Even after scientists reach a consensus about what caused the extinction, observes Renne, a central mystery will remain. What is it about life, he marvels, that enables it to rebound with such extraordinary resilience from the brink of so catastrophic a collapse...