Word: brinks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same time, Lithuania's Communist Party is on the brink of cutting its ties to the national organization. Fearing defeat in elections scheduled for February, the Lithuanian leadership is desperate to redeem the local party in the voters' eyes, despite warnings from Moscow that perestroika will disintegrate under the pressure of their extreme separatism. If the Lithuanians succeed in severing their links, they will set a provocative precedent that is sure to be repeated in other republics...
...Gorbachev's unprecedented attempt to democratize Communism and his drive for economic reform or perestroika have brought the Soviet Union to the brink of breakdown. As popular frustration rises, recourse to some form of more autocratic rule -- either under Gorbachev or a successor -- is increasingly possible...
...besieging itself as rebel troops and government soldiers staked out territory in the city and launched attacks on each other. Not since World War II had so much firepower been seen and used in the capital region. More than ever before, the Aquino regime tottered on the brink of collapse as rebel bazookas blasted away at soldiers defending television broadcast facilities and as factions within the air force joined the rebels and bombed the presidential compound...
...queues for necessities and the utter lack of quality and variety in consumer goods. But with the winter of 1990 approaching, even the thriving joke mill may not be enough to help people forget the grinding deprivation. The accumulated ills of the Soviet economy have brought it to the brink of collapse. Foreign analysts, along with a new breed of frankly realistic Soviet economists, are ringing alarms about potential disaster...
...debt-ceiling legislation. Majority Leader George Mitchell, increasingly playing the role of an unyielding Horatius at the Bridge, blocked them. Democrats similarly toyed with piggybacking onto the debt bill measures that Bush would veto if passed separately. Both sides backed off only when the nation was on the brink of insolvency...