Word: falterer
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...classically trained company's execution of Feld's challenge to traditional ballet is commendable, with minor exceptions. The dancers falter during Feld's complicated, highly rhythmic patterns, when they lose their sense of the sequences' purpose and break their connection to each other in the chaos...
...internecine conflict comes at a time when Saddam's political standing has begun to falter, say U.S. intelligence officials. Last week Washington succeeded in persuading the U.N. Security Council to continue, at least until May, the near total economic embargo that Baghdad desperately wants lifted. Middle-class Iraqi families are drawing from savings to pay for food. The dinar, which traded a year ago at 150 to the dollar, has plunged to 1,500 against the dollar. Crime is rampant in the capital, which has also experienced a rash of car-bomb attacks by dissidents and possibly Iranian agents. There...
...clinch home ice and a first-round ECAC playoff bye, the Crimson needs to come away from this weekend with three points or have its closest competitors falter. And earning those points will be hard to come by tomorrow night, when Clarkson comes to Bright Hockey Center...
Maxwell is, quite simply, another spoiled brat that today's sports-craving society built. As the media whirlwind that is the O.J. Simpson trial has made painfully clear, we manufacture our sports heros to be larger than life, and we don't expect them to falter...
Stock prices in general, though, could falter again if final damage estimates climb higher. The demand for capital for building projects could push long-term interest rates higher, drain cash out of the stock market and divert large amounts of money from other important enterprises...