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...danger. The real danger is proliferation, and proliferation has just begun. Within a decade, according to Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, 15 countries will acquire ballistic missiles. About half will have nuclear weapons on top of them. Moreover, Soviet leaders have been rational and thus deterrable. We went to the brink during the Cuban missile crisis but did not go over. Both sides understood and would not bear the cost of nuclear war. We cannot be so sure that will be true of Iraq, North Korea, Iran, Libya, the nuclear powers of the future...
Like the effect of four straight losses in January and a last-place Beanpot finish on Harvard's psyche, Rensselaer's Derek DeCosty pushed the Crimson to the brink of defeat with a late goal to make...
Chrysler is back at the brink of disaster a decade after the government rescued it by guaranteeing $1.5 billion of the company's loans. Now Chrysler is desperately seeking to raise $500 million to help it hold the road. To do that, the struggling automaker may sell Mitsubishi an increased stake in the Diamond-Star Motors joint venture that builds Plymouth Laser and Mitsubishi Eclipse models in Illinois. Chrysler has also boosted its cost-reduction target from $1 billion to $3 billion...
...impossible as long as Saddam is in power. Already Administration officials assume that the U.S. and allied forces will have to stay until the dictator goes. But since Washington has no strategy for forcing Saddam out, that could mean maintaining garrisons for years in a country perpetually on the brink of explosion. "Going in is easy," sums up a high-ranking officer attached to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "Getting out may be the problem...
...stretch of the road has a steep mountain wall on one side and a near vertical drop on the other, in places falling away for several hundred feet. Old men overtaken by exhaustion sprawl dangerously close to the brink. Other refugees step over them, too tired to lend a hand. Distressed mothers, wondering when dehydration and shock will claim their children, hold their diarrhea-plagued babies over the road's edge and let them relieve themselves...