Word: brinkmanship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa has produced a surplus of bluster. "We will not modify our position," Hosokawa warned afterward. "It's just not acceptable for the United States to continue on the same path," Clinton warned back last week. But as both sides grumbled, they tried to keep the brinkmanship within bounds. "The intent and fact are to be measured and calm about this," insisted a White House official, even as others waved fists at Japan...
...states didn't close their books -- they closed their governments instead. In Connecticut and Maine, state offices were shut down, public employees got involuntary furloughs, and angry Fourth of July revelers found their favorite state parks shuttered. No matter that the closings may have reflected a measure of showy brinkmanship by Governors locked in budget fights with their legislatures: the money problems of states this year are all too real...
Seeking to close a $3.5 billion gap in the city's $28.7 billion budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, Mayor Dinkins has proposed unprecedented cuts in public services, $1 billion in tax increases and the elimination of 27,000 jobs. In an exercise of political brinkmanship, the mayor has targeted many worthy projects. He would slash education by $579 million, which means fewer teachers and larger classes -- even as enrollment leaps by 18,000 this year. He has marked 10 homeless shelters for closing. With tears in his eyes, Dinkins announced cuts in the infant-mortality program...
...they are facing facts. What they may not have anticipated is how expensive it will be to get out from under Trump's operations. Brinkmanship is the stuff that gamblers are made of, after all, and casino magnate Trump cut his teeth at the edge-of-the-cliff school of negotiations. Don't count him out yet. While he will own less at the end of these negotiations, he will also owe less, and the effect on his net worth remains to be seen. After filling an inside straight in the first round of talks, he's already halfway...
Many in Washington are convinced that Saddam is playing brinkmanship, and will pull out only when he is absolutely convinced that the Desert Shield coalition is dead serious about forcing him out of Kuwait, and only at the very last second before any assault occurs. As Baker told U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia last week, his fear is that Saddam "will miscalculate exactly where that brink...