Word: falter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Monti's performances notwithstanding, Harvard knows what it must do to have any chance at a fourth consecutive Ivy League title. With three losses already, the Crimson needs to win all its remaining games (and hope for Princeton and Dartmouth to falter along...
Some are worried that the economy will falter if Clinton is removed, but that is giving the president too much credit for the decisions of Alan Greenspan. Finally, the most justified concern: some are afraid that the president's conviction would strengthen the hold of conservative Republicans over Congress. But the Democrats would be in a stronger position to keep the right wing in check if we had an honest leader in the Oval Office...
That challenge has got harder for the slim G.O.P. majority in the House, where big ideas can falter on just six votes. Speaker-elect Bob Livingston and his team are promising tax cuts, more money for defense and a new way of bookkeeping that will do away with the accounting trick of using Social Security money to mask budget deficits. Enacting such a bold program while keeping the budget balanced will mean pinching funds that pay for programs to which voters seem attached, such as low-income home-energy assistance and environmental enforcement. Moderates within the G.O.P. are likely...
...that was less than orderly. When his parents went through a divorce after a move to New York City, Mattel hand-held games like football and car racing and the popular memory-testing game "Simon" were outlets that let Bennahum "hide from the experience of seeing once-powerful adults falter." In his high school computer lab he explains how users there escaped to a virtual world free from, among other things, divorces, remarriages, and troubled siblings...
Please take our concern seriously, FM. We wish you the best of luck and we're with you all 12 (or 15) steps of the way. Now that you know where to turn, we're confident that your rehabilitation is imminent. Even i you falter along your path to wellness, just try to quell your violent tendencies with a call to UHS Mental Heath Services (495-2042). And keep in mind that Blowing up Harvard is never the answer [vol.10,no.2...