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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...
...Santa Monica gambling joint. To pay the debt, the gamblers put this proposition to Cosmo: snuff a Chinatown bookie. Cosmo likes the risk of the proposition. Even more, though, he enjoys the almost certain prospect of disaster. He has been looking for a way over the brink for a long time...
Standing on the brink of ECAC extinction, Billy Cleary's Crimson squad came out possessed in the third period, wiping out a two-goal deficit in the first three minutes and gaining some breathing room in the Eastern standings. Jon Schuster's slapper tied it at 2:19 of the third...