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...country's foremost management experts. "Well, here we were saying: 'You know Arabs. They cannot cooperate.' " The biggest block to understanding, however, was probably the fact that neither Nixon nor his top advisers-or predecessors-seemed aware that the U.S. was on the brink of running short of energy even without the Arab boycott...
Going into the fourth Sunday of the season, the Atlanta Falcons had lost two consecutive games without scoring a single touchdown. They seemed to be on the brink of disintegration. The San Francisco 49ers were winning 10-0, and now a disgruntled home-town crowd had to watch the embarrassing spectacle of two Falcons-Fullback Art Malone and Tight End Jim Mitchell-angrily slapping each other around after a muffed play. The fight symbolized the Falcons' frustration better than any statistics of futility on offense or defense...
...weeks for long sessions with party leaders, drawing on the considerable store of personal good will he has earned in Ulster in order to achieve an understanding. The agreement was finally sealed in a late evening bargaining session, though in usual Ulster fashion the pact momentarily tottered at the brink of angry dissolution...
Egypt First. President Sadat and the men around him are nationalists, not Nasserists. Their revolution is over. "Unlike Nasser, Sadat does not lead us to the brink and then abandon us. He has a plan about where he wants to take us, and it is realizable," says an Egyptian editor. Above all, the Egyptians are proud that Sadat is following an Egypt-first policy and that he has defined Egypt's national interest. In contrast to Nasser, who was dedicated to a vague ideal of Arab unity, Sadat is trying to lead the Arab world by pursuing specific economic...
...interesting to note that many of the people who are so quick to question the necessity of Nixon's military alert are the same people who could not stop praising Kennedy's courage in needlessly bringing the world to the brink of a nuclear confrontation with Russia in the alleged Cuban missile "crisis...