Word: brinks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most likely, the answer is pragmatism. Politicians are busy people and often not available to attend Harvard's June Commencement. Further, political figures are often tied to specific moments. Washington, for example, received his degree on the brink of the Revolutionary...
...building in Atlanta, have been hurling down one "important" story after another--all in the name of calling our bluff about our desire to focus on what "really matters." In the span of about a month, they gave us: a new war on terrorism, Russia on the brink, a shaky stock market and even a historic race to topple our national pastime's most storied record...
...nuclear facilities in 1994 in exchange for two new reactors that don't produce bomb fuel and a yearly gift of 500,000 tons of heavy fuel oil for conventional power plants. Washington also agreed to roll back sanctions. The hard-won deal brought both sides back from the brink of war. But Pyongyang is frustrated over what it sees as foot dragging in Washington. The reactors are behind schedule, and so are the oil deliveries...
When he was caught, he put all his chips on the same kind of artfully worded, misleading denials that had snatched him from the brink of disaster before. And for seven months he put his family, his friends, his staff and his supporters through hell...
...fact, if the emergency measures begin to work, the big winner may turn out to be Anatoli Chubais, the former First Deputy Prime Minister who has been handling Russia's international-debt negotiations. His boosters will cheer him as the man who pulled Russia back from the brink--while Yeltsin fiddled...