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DUBLIN: Robbery Ruckus Fallout from Ireland's largest cash heist ever has officials and security personnel fending off allegations of bumbling. On Jan. 24, two jeeps burst through the fence of the Brink's-Allied depot in northern Dublin. The five masked occupants, encountering no resistance, bagged $4.2 million and sped away. Following Justice Ministry assurances that all precautions had been taken to prevent such a raid, embarrassing revelations emerged. Not only did police fail to beef up surveillance after a warning that a security-company robbery was being planned, but when the theft took place, most of the Brink...
...Limbaughs and cartoonists across the U.S. of a President extending a hand to Wall Street and ailing foreign countries--that convinced Clinton he had to bypass Congress altogether. With the Mexican peso sliding, only $3.5 billion left in Mexican currency reserves and financial markets throughout Latin America on the brink of collapse, the President last week invoked his executive authority to grant Mexico $20 billion in loans and loan guarantees as the centerpiece of a coordinated bailout. Following Washington's lead, the International Monetary Fund agreed to provide Mexico with a further $17.8 billion, and the Swiss- based Bank...
...Dave Matthews Band, poised on the brink of hitting it big with its 1994 album, the 1993 Under the Table and Dreaming, depends on this crowd for its success--its first album,Remember two Things, sold 100,000 copies even thought it was available only at concerts and through mail-order...
Their sexual encounter teeters on the brink of both risibility and improbability. It's hard to accept that an experienced man would permit a completely obvious seduction to proceed as far as this one does if it was unwanted; fellatio has begun before he starts emitting virginal squeaks of protest. As the movie develops, we are meant to perceive a causal link between Meredith's sexual voraciousness and her incomprehensible corporate schemings. Eventually they begin to feel like a lot of plotting for plotting's sake, something to do for the second half of what would otherwise have been...
These are the antagonists in the love match that Brookner sets up. George watches unblinkingly as his standards go down the drain. He also looks without flinching at the object of his fixation. She has ``an unusual gift: she brought everyone to the brink of bad behaviour.'' An honest man and proud of it, he is appalled to hear himself telling her petty lies, mostly in an effort to keep her greed at bay. Meanwhile, she is a determined missionary as she rattles on about getting in touch with ``the essential self.'' Confronted with one of his respectable female friends...