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Word: brinks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Baghdad Bandwagon As a near-inevitable attack approaches, Saddam and Madeleine make their plays for international support. Back to the Brink: a TIME special...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Front Page | 2/1/1998 | See Source »

...early part of the century and forming its own teams. After the merger, the paper began to see fewer extras, but the sports board turned the trend around. The Crimson had post-game extras on the street just minutes after the game was over. When football seemed on the brink of demise, The Crimson ran an aggressive editorial, petition, and donation drive to save the sport...

Author: By Michael Ryan, EDITED BY THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: The First 100 Years | 1/24/1998 | See Source »

WASHINGTON: Microsoft has stepped back from the brink. That's the news from Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's courtroom where just a week ago the software firm was vigorously defending the entwining of Internet Explorer with Windows 95. Now it has pledged to separate the two, avoiding the risk of a $1 million-a-day fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Microsoft Steps Back | 1/22/1998 | See Source »

...observe and direct troops, a tactic later employed in the American Civil War. During WW II, barrage balloons (4) and their slicing cables help protect various sites, including London, against low-flying enemy planes. From the outset, balloons are used to study the atmosphere, eventually lifting men to the brink of space (5). Sports ballooning takes off in the 20th century. The Atlantic is crossed in 1978, the Pacific in 1981, both by U.S. teams. But the last conquest, circumnavigating the globe, remains, well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up, Up and...Uh, Oh! | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

Korea's Reverse Alchemy Is South Korea, on the brink of recovery, about to make a major misstep? Playing the international gold game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Front Page | 1/14/1998 | See Source »

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