Word: teeters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pleas for time to give his policies a chance are registering with many voters. Says former Vice President Walter Mondale, who has been campaigning for Democratic candidates: "You get the darndest feeling out there that it's supposed to be patriotic to go broke." Republican Pollster Robert Teeter asserts: "People would almost rather wait six months and vote." Indeed, Democratic strategists may be overestimating the impact of double-digit joblessness...
...long as the U.S. economy remains sluggish and many companies continue to teeter on the brink of bankruptcy, some banks will be wobbly, even though American banking is basically solid. Says Arthur Soter, a bank analyst for New York's Morgan Stanley: "By the time this recession is over, the cases of sheer stupidity may be far less than in the mid-1970s, but overall losses could turn out to be worse." Like the hard-pressed companies and countries to which they have made heavy loans, U.S. banks now have to face up to serious past mistakes and pressing...
...major flaw in the film's handling of this theme is its tone. Horovitz seems slightly confused by his chosen form: the comedy-drama. Allowing the film to teeter between pathos and slapstick, he treats the material too lightly to evoke a poignant response from the audience, yet not satirically enough to inspire much laughter. Moreover, the overly cheerful conclusion results from a painfully contrived plot twist...
Right away on the river, he heard a mating snlpe flinging itself about the sky in order to impress its female, with a faint laughing ululation such as children make when hooting with their hands in front of their mouths. He saw some sandpipers, or "teeter-tails," tipping their tails as they searched for invertebrates. A gray marsh hawk seized a dazed and chilly frog before his eyes, and half a dozen geese were still dawdling south of their nesting ground in passionate but wary pairs...
...Friday nights the crowds along Fulton and Nostrand avenues ebb and flow like a tide. Dudes are gambling up and down the streets. The sweet smell of reefer is everywhere, and wine bottles are passed around. Up the block, twelve-year-old hookers teeter on high heels, flouncing their boyish hips. There are drunken brawls, skin-and-bone addicts overdosing, police sirens screaming and the rattle of the el in the distance...