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That decision--calling Nixon's bluff on his bid to refuse evidence to the government prosecutors--backed the president against a wall. Cornered by incriminating disclosure on the one hand and public outrage over acts of non-compliance on the other, Nixon stands on the brink of disgrace...
...brink then; San Francisco was driving me crazy. No school ever taught me about all this. So I stuffed my pack full of books, and went back over across the Bay Bridge to Barb's place. She gave me a check, and said I could only cash it if I would talk to Ray. I went out and got the money while she called him. When I came back to pick up my backpack, Ray was waiting. That's when we parted company...
...appeal to Protestants in Ulster's latest, and perhaps most serious crisis. A province-wide general strike brought business to a complete standstill, forced most of the province's 180,000 industrial workers off the job and shut down virtually all shops. Ulster was on the brink of economic paralysis...
...innovative, because so much music today is unmelodious." Dismissing the old dictum that film music should be unobtrusive, he believes in getting his melodies into the forefront. "If I'm scoring a sad scene, I want my music to take the audience over the emotional brink," he explains. "I want to bring a tear to their eyes...
Meanwhile, Cornell's righty Ken Brink was breezing along on the mound with a two-hitter, showing no signs of letting up. He finally gave up a run in the bottom of the sixth on Dave St. Pierre's double, after walks to Leigh Hogan and Mackey, but retired Friar and captain Ric LaCivita to quell the uprising...