Word: brinks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even as S&Ls were teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, their financial health was being certified by accounting firms. As a result, one company is now threatened with loss of its license in California. The state board of accountancy has charged Ernst & Young with negligence in auditing Charles Keating's Lincoln Savings and Loan, whose 1989 collapse could cost taxpayers $2 billion...
...Crimson joined the growing tide of voices nationwide demanding that President Bush seek Congressional approval for his policies in the Gulf before he recklessly carries the nation into war with Saddam Hussein. The stakes are too high, and public support too uncertain to bring the nation to the brink of war for the sake of ill-defined foreign policy goals...
...president now says we are on the brink of war with Iraq in part to help contruct a "new" world order. A month ago, we might have believed him. Administration envoys were crisscrossing the globe, building a coalition that has left Saddam Hussein almost friendless. The coalition built its strategy on a full-scale economic embargo, which has been enforced with unprecedented success...
...that we're all more or less on the side of the angels," he says. "We all took a deep breath when the Berlin Wall fell. But then we turned to other things." Among them is whether the Vile Body has any future in a city teetering on the brink of terminal decay. It's not a prospect that cheers the salon regulars. New York may be a city under enemy (read: tired old liberal) aegis. But it is also the center of a vernacular culture that makes the U.S., in Johnston's sardonic phrase, "the most amusing place...
...what "liberty"? And how high a price for it? Bush's vague rhetoric--and his refusal to seek approval from Congress for his de facto pursuit of war--have needlessly pushed the world to the brink of catastrophe. Before blindly accepting the costs of a military assault on Kuwait (or as some suggest, Iraq), Bush should seek a negotiated solution to the crisis that involves the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from populated areas of Kuwait, and the establishment of military deterrence to further aggression...