Word: brinks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feel abused, we feel exploited," said John Natale, a small property owner. Natale said that he's heard the phrase, "If I only had a gun..." used seriously by rent control opponents, and he warned, "We're on the brink of someone getting hurt...
When Clinton and his environmentalist sidekick, Al Gore, took office, they were already well aware that America's ecology was in crisis. From the spotted owls and salmon in the Northwest to woodpeckers and salamanders in the Southeast, many species were on the brink of extinction, and the implications were ominous. Says Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, architect of the Administration's natural-resource policy: "This really isn't about just preserving strange species with incomprehensible names. In every single case, that species is the warning light about the decline in productivity of an ecosystem." In the past, the debate...
...cover 20,000 acres of what was once pristine wetland. Grown thick and tall (some more than 8 ft. high) in the phosphorus-filled runoff of nearby sugar and vegetable plantations, they stand as a symbol of the decades of mismanagement that have brought the famous region to the brink of environmental collapse...
...this academic star with a firsthand knowledge of the tribulations of being black in America is on the brink of wider fame. He has become a high- profile guest on TV talk shows and a controversial contributor to op-ed pages and magazines, with bristling articles on black anti-Semitism, gay rights and the social virtues of rap. His new book, Race Matters, has shown up on some best-seller lists on the strength of an 18-city promotion tour...
Stephanopoulos becomes a senior adviser to Clinton, responsible for managing the President's battles with Congress. Though the budget fight took the White House to the brink, staffers say they realize it is a walk in the park compared with either the looming budget battle in the Senate or the costly overhaul of the health-care system that Clinton wants Congress to consider as soon as its work on the budget is complete...