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Some utilities are approaching the brink...
WHEN WALTER F. Mondale finally picks his running mate, one hopes this week, he will bring to a merciful close one of the saddest charades in recent political memory. Never before has a politician on the brink of such high office debased himself more before his supporters...
Everyone agrees that the most serious problem facing Malden is financial. A 1982 study by a team of University of Massachusetts, Amherst economists showed the city was teetering on the brink of financial failure because of declining Federal aid a shrinking tax base, a high demand for services and poor management...
...military relinquished power and invited Siles back from his exile in Peru. But his coalition of four left-of-center parties, including the local Communists, has bickered incessantly ever since; a series of economic mistakes, coupled with severe drought and flood, have brought the country to the brink of ruin. The inflation rate reached 328% in 1983, and could hit 2,000% this year. Although the treasury is bare and foreign banks have been calling for a solution to Bolivia's $3.4 billion foreign debt, the country has yet to take the hard measures that would permit...
CONVICTED. Samuel Brown, 43, ex-convict; of murder and robbery in the 1981 Brink's armored-truck holdup at a Nanuet, N.Y., mall in which a guard and two police officers were killed; in White Plains, N.Y. Brown was the last of the nine Brink's suspects in custody to be prosecuted...