Word: brinks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brink of a resounding reelection--the first for a Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Arrayed against them was a burgeoning New Right in war paint. It wanted nothing less than to demolish the welfare state, including Social Security, and roll back federal powers over business and the states, while aggressively challenging the communist world, to the brink of war (and beyond). Its intellectual center was the National Review and its founder, William F. Buckley, who started the magazine in 1955 in part to reclaim conservatism from the cranks, conspiracy theorists and anti-Semites who had dragged it into the phosphorescent margins of American politics...
...film's detractors acquire extra ammunition when the movie, predictably enough, swoons under a case of happy-ending fever. Confirming that the story seems on the brink of really getting interesting, Krueger pulls us away to never-never land and doesn't deal with the intriguing predicament in which the three find themselves...
Student activists indicate that they may be on the brink of changing their approach. The letter to Knowles last month implied a threat of more extreme action...
...have enjoyed unprecedented tastes of freedom over the past few years, and the process began so hopefully, even heroically. Now the descendants of Stalin's victims are poised to welcome as their rulers the heirs of Stalin's politics. Will they do so? Or will they pause at the brink? On the following pages TIME explores the reasons for the trouble in the Russian soul, the fierce campaign for the presidency and what the outcome may mean for the world...