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Back in Washington, congressional aides and White House officials have continued huddling in private all week, hoping to pull the country back from the fiscal brink.
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Marianna Sotomayor, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
Profligate spending and overly bullish fund-raising projections put the campaign on the financial brink after only two months.
—Nicholas Nehamas, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
Many more companies are teetering on the financial brink.
—Ken Ward Jr., ProPublica, 1 Dec. 2023
But this far removed from its 1946 premiere, the dance also felt like a tribute to Samuel Barber’s haunting score, which seemed itself to hang ominously from the rafters, the music teetering indefinitely on an unfathomable brink.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
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Marianna Sotomayor, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
Profligate spending and overly bullish fund-raising projections put the campaign on the financial brink after only two months.
—Nicholas Nehamas, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
Many more companies are teetering on the financial brink.
—Ken Ward Jr., ProPublica, 1 Dec. 2023
But this far removed from its 1946 premiere, the dance also felt like a tribute to Samuel Barber’s haunting score, which seemed itself to hang ominously from the rafters, the music teetering indefinitely on an unfathomable brink.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
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