Word: brinks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harold Sperlich first discussed building minivans in the mid-1970s, when both men were at Ford. It was not until 1978, after they had moved to Chrysler, that they got a chance to produce one. The $600 million project was risky, since Chrysler at the time was on the brink of bankruptcy...
...worst of all, we were on the brink of economic collapse." Then, in his prepared remarks, he proudly ticked off the accomplishments of three years: a stronger mili tary; lower inflation, taxes and interest rates; falling unemployment...
Frustration over such defeats drove Stockman to the brink of insubordination. In an interview in FORTUNE, he castigated "dreamers, including some in the Administration," who think the deficit can be sharply reduced by spending cuts. He derided the idea that "there are vast pockets of fraud, waste and abuse out there" that could be eliminated painlessly. The clear implication was that taxes must be raised. Though his comments were reminiscent of those he made to the Atlantic in 1981, which sent him to Reagan's "woodshed" and nearly cost him his job, the Administration this time shrugged off Stockman...
...still tie them more closely to Western Europe. They have also observed that experiments in Marxist socialism have largely been unsuccessful. One of the best examples is resource-rich Ghana, where the four-year-old government of Flight Lieut. Jerry Rawlings, 36, now faces an economy teetering on the brink of collapse. The Soviets have demonstrated skill at selling arms to poor African nations, often for hard currency, but they have even been less generous than the West with their economic aid. Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov has made it plain that the Soviet economy cannot afford to give substantial assistance...
...achievements to the magazine. Newsweek produced a special issue in February that looked at 50 years of U.S. history through the lives of five ordinary families in Springfield, Ohio, and stretched the newsmagazine concept with a 25-page special report on a killer's road to the brink of execution. Broyles successfully sought to have stories be more "rooted" in the nation's basic concerns, a concept he expressed by using the word America, in some form, 14 times on twelve covers in 1983. Broyles, says a Washington correspondent, "won support for his idea that the news grew...