Word: brinks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first sign of trouble occured in April 1991, when Harvard was on the brink of winning a ninth consecutive Ivy championship...
Babbitt's most ambitious long-term goal is a broad reinterpretation of the Endangered Species Act. "I think it is absolutely the overarching issue," says Babbitt. He proposes to focus less on rescuing individual species already on the brink of extinction, taking instead a multispecies approach in which ecosystems will be examined as a whole. This will require government scientists and researchers to integrate their efforts across agency lines and produce comprehensive biological surveys. As a case in point, Babbitt cites the feuding among federal agencies in the fight over the northern spotted owl of the Pacific Northwest forests...
...former magazine editor who is confined to a room and forbid from the activity she loves most--writing. Her creative mind, demanding stimulation, creates fantasies of a woman trapped under the pattern of the wallpaper. Walling, with the help of ominous Bartok music, brings the audience to the brink of insanity, to the abyss of madness into which she herself is rapidly descending...
Davidson plays Dil, a pert London hairdresser on the brink of an affair with Fergus (Stephen Rea), an IRA man who held Dil's British lover captive in Belfast. Fergus hasn't expected to fall in love. He surely hasn't expected to find -- as the viewer does, 69 minutes into the 112-minute film -- that Dil is a man. A gay black man, pining for a gay black British soldier, yet eerily enticing to an Irish heterosexual who now has the convulsive feeling he is on the lam from himself...
...this team knows how to battle, often through the employment of some of the more obscure weapons in its arsenal. This time, it was defenseman Bryan Lonsinger who brought Harvard back from another brink, scoring from the right point to knot the score at two-all on what was only his second goal of the year...