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...such reasons, a lot of the country was not unhappy to watch New York City in the past year tottering like a Charlie Chaplin drunk on the brink of bankruptcy. The city is now able to lurch from payday to payday only because of revolving federal loans administered by a disdainful Republican Administration in Washington. New York has refused to redeem certain of its outstanding short-term securities on schedule. It has cut nearly 50,000 full-time employees from the city payroll in the past 18 months, reducing the total to some...
Today GEICO stock is selling at about $2.50 and the company is on the brink of bankruptcy. A GEICO crash would be costly to the company's 2.8 million policyholders in 25 states, who would lose some of the $660 million a year they have been paying GEICO in premiums, and to other insurers, who would have to take over payment of claims against GEICO. The company has lost $150 million since the start of 1975. Worse, Maximilian Wallach, Superintendent of Insurance in Washington, D.C., where GEICO is headquartered, seems to be failing in a rescue attempt...
...there for a few more months. But what if he had? How many brilliant Bill's are lasting a little longer and getting out into the world as doctors today? And, going one step further, is this selection process, with performance emphases that often push young students to the brink of sanity or dull their senses of right and wrong, weeding out many of those individuals who could best deliver health care and legal services to those who need it most? The ability to deal adequately and compassionately with human medical problems is surely rooted as much in social...
...Linda E. Brink College Park...
...buffer stocks in them (TIME, May 10). By buying and selling from these stocks, the LDCS argued, consumers and producers would be able to keep prices within an agreed range, thus avoiding both the sharp increases that fuel world inflation and the steep declines that bring producers to the brink of bankruptcy...