Word: teeter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This squeeze on families bodes ill for children. Twelve million youngsters have no medical coverage; 5 million teeter on the edge of homelessness. Because of poor prenatal care, a baby born in the shadow of the White House is now more likely to die in the first year of life than a baby born in Costa Rica...
...hurt him, perhaps because the President's all-hat- and-no-cattle (as Bush likes to call showy cowboys) approach to domestic problems mirrors voters' own mixed feelings about unfinished business. White House pollster Robert Teeter, who takes monthly soundings, points out that Americans want problems addressed but have little appetite for expensive big fixes. "They want him to be doing something," says Teeter, "but they don't want him to go overboard...