Word: brinkmanship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foreign economic front, Nixon and Connally played a daring and sometimes crude game of economic brinkmanship that at times seemed to threaten the entire fabric of U.S. relations with its friends and trading partners. While no one could foretell the long-range psychological effects and the resentments that might linger, by year's end Nixon and Connally had plainly cleared the way for the grinding task of renegotiating the Western world's trade and monetary system (see THE ECONOMY...
...Playing Brinkmanship. Chicago cannot support two afternoon papers at a profit. Says Emmett Dedmon, 53, editorial director of the Field papers: "Sooner or later, there has to be one afternoon paper." Neither side, however, will let the other have an afternoon monopoly or be the first to fold. Publisher Marshall Field V, at 30 the prime mover of Field Enterprises, admits that "the losses are stupid." He accuses the Tribune Co. of "playing brinkmanship"-stubbornly taking deficits on Today in hopes of forcing the Daily News under. One block away in the Tribune Tower, H.F. Grumhaus, 68, the crusty, reticent...
...issues. Abel presented his demands. One steel executive described them as "somewhere between Venus and Mars." The next day, Larry finally made management's first firm offer. It was promptly rejected. In his debut as management's chief negotiator, Larry irritated union men by his unyielding stand. "Brinkmanship can be a dangerous game," warned union Vice President Joseph Molony...
...Buckley has read Robert Kennedy's Thirteen Days he knows that members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff counseled President Kennedy to launch an all-out attack on Russia even after the crisis was over. In contrast to this, a Russian attempt to oppose our use of nuclear brinkmanship-which the U. S. employed to assert that it alone has the right to surround other countries with nuclear weapons-suggests a triumph of moderation...
...little by then, it still leaves you wondering how they have stood each other for so long. Segal's one great profundity, crashing down out of nowhere, hardly resolves the confusion. "Love," say Ali and Ollie, "means never having to say you're sorry." That sounds more like brinkmanship than love...