Word: teetering
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...atmosphere). The thin, spreading crust of the valley floors is notoriously unstable, agitated. Hot springs steam up through faults and fissures. Whirling dust devils dance across the flats. The mountain ranges are new, still rising, alive; perched on top of this tectonic tumult, the structures of civilization seem to teeter. The schools and supermarkets are surrounded, as often as not, by fresh-dug earth, and what's not being built is being shored up or razed. Just off Highway 50 the settlement of Frenchman--once home to a diner, a gas station and a motel--was purchased by the Navy...
...Bless Africa," the U.N. Convention on Trade in Endangered Species voted overwhelmingly to relax the seven-and-a-half year ban on ivory trade to allow the three countries a one-time sale of 59 tons of stockpiled elephant tusks to Japan. While Africa's elephants no longer teeter on the brink of extinction, environmental "ele-friends" warn that the vote may mark a return to the horrific pre-ban poaching levels that saw ivory hunters slaughtering nearly 70,000 African elephants each year. Officials in Zimbabwe, Namibia and Botswana, where 30 percent of Africa's estimated 580,000 elephants...
...everyone over the age of 55 in 1998, while phasing in those between the ages of 24 and 54. And the system would maintain a safety-net program that would prevent any retiree from sinking into poverty. "No matter how you ask the question," says Republican pollster Robert Teeter, "Americans strongly support taking care of our seniors and anyone else who can't take care of themselves...
...presidential campaign and not see anything touch on most peoples' frustrations and concerns. Whatever politics or government means to them today, it's a fraction of what it was 20 to 30 years ago. It's less relevant, and they don't think it matters very much." --Pollster Bob Teeter...
...many cruel cusps atop which life obliges us to teeter, none is more razor-sharp than the one separating childhood and adolescence. Just ask Dawn Wiener (Heather Matarazzo), better known to her fellow students at Benjamin Franklin Junior High as "Wiener Dog." Built like a badly packed shipping carton, afflicted with thick, round glasses and tightly skinned-back hair, she was born to be shunned and taunted in approximately equal measure...