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...think being on the Brink is the only way to play. What the other team wins doesn't count: it's only the ones that they can't afford to lose. Today's was just the first they...
Last spring, while Nigeria teetered on the brink of civil war, a diplomat experienced in African affairs, commented, "If Nigeria goes, there is no hope for the rest of Africa...
...Brink. Propelled by rising wages, employment and overtime, personal income climbed in August for the third month in a row. Retail sales kept pace. They rose in August for the third straight month, and are likely to rise even more as U.S. families, which have been saving 70 of each dollar, begin to spend some of what they have squirreled away. "As far as we're concerned," says Walgreen Drug Chairman Charles R. Walgreen Jr., "the public is on a buying spree." Adds Chairman Edward Hanley of Allegheny Ludlum Steel: "We're in an inflationary period...
...many financial men fear the Treasury will be hard put to borrow $10.6 billion before year's end to pay the nation's soaring bills. "I think the Fed has been had," said former Chief White House Economist Raymond Saulnier last week. "We're on the brink of a financial crisis...
...futile convictions. And at least one of his statements is certain to set swivel chairs spinning in Washington. According to Bidault, during the siege of Dienbienphu in 1954, France asked the U.S. for military aid against Ho Chi Minh's army, then poised on the brink of victory. In reply, says Bidault, John Foster Dulles asked him "if we would like the U.S. to give us two atomic bombs." It is curious that Bidault alone of the many participants in that troubled time, including Sir Anthony Eden, Allen Dulles and President Eisenhower, should recall such an unlikely proposal...