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...London there was foul weather, and the balance of payments on the blink or brink...
...have moved to exempt children from the new fees. New York's Manufacturers Hanover, for example, waives for minors the $1 quarterly charge on pint-size accounts. But if the pressure on banks to streamline their operations continues to grow, the kids, and many of their on-the-brink elders, may find that a piggy bank is the best they...
Chappaquiddick and his personal problems may have done in Teddy Kennedy. But I believe that the American people also perceive him as the king of the big spenders who have brought this country to the very brink of economic collapse. The aspirations of an arsonist to be fire chief strike many as ludicrous...
According to many psychotherapists, the nation's economic woes are beginning to have a heavy impact on their practice. One common report: the pressures of inflation are sending many marginally stable patients over the brink. Says Alan Gruber, a psychologist at Social Counselling Associates in Hanover, Mass.: "The people we see would ordinarily be able to cope, but with inflation, they can't cope now. It is just too much." Adds Cleveland Psychotherapist Jack Wiggins: "We're seeing a cumulative effect. When financial problems are added to internal problems, they tend to overwhelm people." St. Louis Psychologist...
...appearing together in this comedy about sexual discovery at summer camp, McNichol and O'Neal demand that audiences compare them. Both actresses are at a transition point, just past their mid-teens, and both have well-tailored parts. McNichol plays a tomboy on the brink of womanhood-a character patterned after her role of Buddy on TV's Family. O'Neal is a precocious rich girl who seems designed to resemble her public persona as Ryan's daughter. In different ways, each performance is fascinating. McNichol, who has had little big-screen experience (The End), proves...