Word: teetering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good old fashioned shrink. I went ahead and called University Mental Health Services only to be told by the not-so-nice receptionist that their earliest appointment wasn't for another week. How's that for rapid response? If you're ever on the brink, you only have to teeter for seven days before a University professional comes to your...
...time in the world to consider the complexities of psychology, and each story tells a truthful tale about some kind of a momentous change in interpersonal situation. The personality of each character dwells in the depths of meaning, and, even if the worlds the characters inhabit might teeter towards the fanciful, they relate to the every day of the common man with the help of Byers' unvarnished narrative skills...
...teeter down the stairs, I pass one of my male neighbors and brace myself for his reaction. But he only grins "Hello" and then averts his eyes. I know I have the body of a 12 year old boy, but shouldn't skimpy clothes cause more of a reaction than that...
...death--it was a particularly nasty case. As superintendent of the project, Kelly was directing a crane, lowering an empty bucket into the excavation site for the subway tunnel. So engrossed was he in this responsibility that he failed to notice when the 25-foot crane inexplicably began to teeter. A Cambridge patrolman shouted at Kelly to "get out of the way," but noise prevented him from hearing the warning signal. The unit toppled completely, and Kelly was buried beneath 15 tons of crane...
...measure consumer fears and lusts find that people are still wary of this crunchy economy. If there is such a thing as a national mood, it contradicts itself so much that even the pollsters are confused. "The country is just euphoric," says G.O.P. pollster Robert Teeter; his latest figures show that 78% of Americans are not worried about their job security. "There is not a lot of euphoria out there," says Tom Smith of the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, whose survey finds that job satisfaction, financial satisfaction and overall happiness are all lower now than...