Word: brinks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...change. Monday night, while he reaffirmed his promise to deliver a "new Italian miracle," supporters careered through the streets of Rome blasting their car horns and crying "Silvio! Silvio!" It was display of jubilation not seen since the giddy summer of 1990, when soccer-mad Italy seemed on the brink of its fourth World Cup title. That dream, of course, was dashed when the home team lost to Argentina in the semifinals -- a useful lesson to draw on the evanescence of miracles...
...would be Aaron who would lose 25 pounds in the next two months. Swimming three to four hours every day, barely eating any food, he managed to bring himself to the brink of near-starvation. His eyes were dull in his bony face and his skin clung to his frame like gray sandpaper...
...over and over on South Korean television, was a sharp reminder of the acrimony growing between North Korea and most of the world after Pyongyang once again refused to submit to international nuclear inspection. The North cranked up its noisy propaganda machine to proclaim the Korean peninsula on "the brink of war" and pointedly reminded the U.S. not to forget that 54,246 American soldiers died in the Korean...
...military intervention persist. Warlords are in the ascendant, bedeviling efforts by the U.N. and Somalis to negotiate a political solution. Violent attacks on aid workers have increased, threatening to reverse any progress made in the past year. The prospect of renewed anarchy has brought many Somalis to the brink of despair. "It will never be stopped," laments Mohammed Haji Yusur, a doctor in the port of Kismayu, where clan warfare has once again filled his hospital with the dead and wounded. "It will never...
Pressures from poaching and human population growth have pushed the big cats to the brink of extinction. Can trade sanctions against nations that use tiger parts protect the animal when parks, police and appeals to public opinion have failed...