Word: brinks
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With Nicaragua on the brink of chaos, Chamorro offered last Wednesday to reopen talks with the unions and Sandinista leaders. By the next morning, agreement was reached and calm restored. Union leaders pointed triumphantly to the long list of concessions. Chamorro's supporters hailed as a victory the army's decision to obey orders and not back the strikers. They cited with particular pride a public pledge of loyalty made by Daniel's brother, General Humberto Ortega, who heads the armed forces...
After 2 1/2 years of the intifadeh they have built a nation but not a state. No matter what happens, they will never be the same. -- Yeltsin's departure could leave Gorbachev in charge of an irrelevant Communist Party. -- Chamorro navigates Nicaragua back from the brink of chaos...
Bill Cosby plays an overworked widower on the brink of a promotion that will finally ensure a secure future for his children. Right before everything is finalized, though, he dies in a freak accident, his house mortgaged to the hilt and his family virtually destitute...
Could the omens have been any more promising? Henderson had struck gold twice for the Red Sox, saving them from the brink of defeat, and then bringing them within one strike of the ultimate victory. If the team couldn't win then, how could they ever be expected...
...whole, Cohen will be remembered as the person who brought Perspective from the brink of a financial abyss to fiscal solidity without compromising the magazine's liberal ideals. But he has also made his presence felt in the paper's editorial content. As a prominent member of Stop Withholding Access Today (SWAT), a group formed to protest discrimination at the nine all-male final Clubs, he contributed to Perspective's shift toward an activist slant...