It ought also to reassure those who fear that Roe v Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that made abortion legal in every state, is on the verge of being overturned.

ECONOMIST: The Supreme Court

As in other OCED countries whose populations are aging rapidly, Germany's pay-as-you-go state pension plan is on the verge of collapse.

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"Given the economic mess we're in, a lot of people are coming in saying they think they're on the verge of a nervous breakdown, " says David Hellerstein, research psychiatrist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute.

WSJ: Time for a Good Old-Fashioned Nervous Breakdown

The same state that produced the Boston Tea Party, the original Ponzi fraud scheme and John Kerry is on the verge of becoming the latest to allow pet owners to write their furry or feathered friends into their wills.

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