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...ports near Cyprus or ferried westward across the Bosporus to take up positions along the Greek border. In response, long columns of olive-drab Greek tanks clattered across the Thracian plain to confront the Turks. Thus last week Turkey and Greece, uneasy allies in NATO, came to the very brink of war over the long-troubled island of Cyprus. Diplomacy temporarily headed off a major conflict, but the two nations continued glaring at each other down the barrels of their U.S.-made guns...
...stockholder, he draws no salary, receives no dividends, pockets no expense money. Instead, he plows every cent of profit, which he prefers to call "operating surplus," back into his business-aviation. In the space of 13 years, Rachal's little known Mooney Aircraft Inc. has gone from the brink of bankruptcy to become, after Cessna, Piper and Beech, the nation's fourth biggest private-aircraft maker...
...country has kept The Club busier or given it more nightmares than Britain, whose economy has palpitated in maddeningly regular intervals through a dozen sterling crises in 18 years. The pattern soon became all too familiar: a period of expansion leading straight to the brink of bankruptcy for sterling at $2.80, then a rescue loan to buy time while the government damped down the economy. Once a spell of austerity built up Britain's reserves anew, governments invariably felt politically impelled to relax restrictions and let the whole expansion-to-the-brink process begin again...
...critics, Willem de Kooning at 63 is the foremost living U.S. painter to emerge in the postwar period. But the reclusive white-locked dean of a bstract expressionism has not had a Manhattan exhibit of new work in five years, largely because the attendant bustle drives him to the brink of distraction. Thus, when 45 De Kooning oils and 50 drawings, mostly completed in the past four years, went on view at Manhattan's Knoedler & Co. this week, it was the most eagerly anticipated art gallery exhibit of the season...
...Dickey's most recent poems that teeters on this brink is called "Falling." An airline stewardess sucked from an aircraft falls to her death in a Kansas cornfield. On the way down...