Word: brink
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Impressive Gains. The continuing power struggle does not necessarily mean China is hovering on the brink of major civil strife. The governing bureaucracy functions effectively. The military appears to be stable and-so far, at least-has shown no signs of rebelling against party authority. Impressive gains have been made in industry and agriculture. One crucial but little-noted factor making for stability is that top-level quarrels in Peking sometimes do not have very much effect in the vast impassive interior of the country. The debate over revisionism in education, for example, has for months captured the headlines...
...precluded possibilities for the peaceful settlement of the country's racial power struggle. Smith's rejection of British mediation and last month's collapse of talks between Smith and Joshua Nkomo, the leader of the black African National Council's "internal faction" have brought Rhodesia to the brink of civil war. Moreover, the recent unification of the efforts of the presidents of Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania and Botswana to form a strategy to end white rule in Rhodesia represents a new solidification of black African opposition to the Smith regime. Mozambique's severing of the railroad that formerly carried...
There are many historical and institutional reasons for the discord that now cripples the GSD: the last dean's laissez-faire approach left the school in administrative turmoil and on the brink of fiscal disaster; the relatively small GSD is especially vulnerable at Harvard, where each "tub" must stand on its own budgetary "bottom"; and physical designers, quantitative planners, and user-oriented GSD students and faculty have continually disputed the appropriate recipe for a design education. The list goes...
...reports, Kerry charged that the number of practitioners-healing counselors who are the closest thing to clergy in Christian Science-is less than half what it was 20 years ago, 500 churches and societies have disbanded since 1972, and 500 of the 3,000 that remain are on the brink of closing. Worldwide membership, he reported, is about 195,000, substantially less than previous outside estimates...
Faltering Rivals. The ebullient mood of the auto industry in Germany is in sharp contrast to that in its European rivals. Britain is scissored by falling domestic demand and chronic labor troubles, which have brought the auto industry to the brink of bankruptcy. Italian domestic sales in 1975 fell 17.6%, the sharpest drop in 30 years; but recovery has started, with January 33% above the same month last year. Though not so precipitous, the 3% French decline in 1975 output was bad enough. One industry spokesman views prospects for 1976 with "guarded optimism...