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...Chicago, Welfare Director David L. Daniel says that the Cook County rolls will increase from 485,000 at the end of 1970 to 625,000 this year. In Newark, 25% of the population is getting aid, and Essex County Welfare Director Philip K. Lazaro says: "We are on the brink of financial disaster." In Los Angeles, the case load is now above 800,000 and rising by 10,000 to 15,000 a month...
...this kind. Financed by governments, foundations and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the scientists are striving to conserve the world's largest reservoir of wildlife. Decades of indifference and exploitation have driven some species, such as the cheetah and the wild Somalia ass, to the brink of extinction. Africa's burgeoning population and the land hunger of many citizens in the newly independent nations continue to reduce the territory available for animals...
...miss the endless arguments that threaten to push you beyond the brink of reason until, at moments, you find a spark of understanding between seemingly irreconcilable opposites. You miss the almost palpable effort, both painful and exhilarating, that is often required to resist anger or despair. You miss a sense of being where the action is, where the decisions happen. You miss, finally, the balance that must be struck anew each day between All Is Lost and Everything Is Possible...
...orchestra had a tendency, especially in the first movement, to enter just a fraction of a beat behind him, a problem which would not have cropped up if he were not playing. Nonetheless, it was a fine performance, with especially good work by cellist Corinne Flavin and violinist Robert Brink...
...warn that such a cycle of retaliation and counterretaliation, carried to the extreme, can have the most chilling consequences. The last such spiral began duringand did much to deepenthe Great Depression. But the margin for good sense is slim, as the world teeters on the brink of a trade war that no one wanted...