He noted that in many states, municipal agencies and nonprofit groups offer grants and "rescue loans" for those verging on foreclosure.
Corzine has been forced to slash billions from his state's budget, while at the same time scraping together and defending emergency relief for families verging on hunger and homelessness.
His last year provides the grist for a novella that could write itself, given this potential explanation for why Bazille, verging on creative maturity, volunteered for war — causing his best friend, the musician and aesthete Edmond Maître, to tell him that he was "stark raving mad".
Among Park Avenue intersections, this one rates pretty high on the architecture scale, with only No. 1105 (this reporter's home for the last 18 years) verging on the quotidian.
Sheffield's Peace Garden, for instance, while verging on kitsch as a piece of design, provided a real sense of seclusion and communality.
For years New York was hip-hop's center of innovation and its historical repository, so for a young rapper to look explicitly elsewhere for influence verged on heretical.
The magazine's reverence for Hitchcock verged on idolatry.
Siegel's penchant for action, while sometimes verging on impulsiveness, was a complement to Lansky's more analytical temperament.
FOR a mortgage borrower verging on delinquency, a cheaper loan may be the best way to save a home.
For evidence, look no further than that an apology by the acid-tongued Simon Cowell for remarks that were "verging on disrespectful" was only the second-biggest shocker of the "American Idol" finale, after David Cook's victory.
