Word: teetering
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...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...
...Beatles unplugged: a rollicking Got to Get You into My Life featuring sumptuous harmonies; the fetal version of A Day in the Life; a mainly acoustic, hand-jivey I'm Looking Through You; a busted take of And Your Bird Can Sing, in which John and Paul teeter into wild giggling--two kids in love with the fun of making music...
Biological evolution, says Kauffman, is just one example of a self-organizing system that teeter-totters on the knife edge between order and chaos, "a grand compromise between structure and surprise." Too much order makes change impossible; too much chaos and there can be no continuity. But since balancing acts are necessarily precarious, even the most adroit tightrope walkers sometimes make one move too many. Mass extinctions, chaos theory suggests, do not require comets or volcanoes to trigger them. They arise naturally from the intrinsic instability of the evolving system, and superior fitness provides no safety...
Because the retired general wants the best advice, adviser Kenneth Duberstein has been quietly sounding out such top Republican operatives as pollster Bob Teeter and former Bush organizer Mary Matalin about the mechanics of a race: how to get on ballots and where to get organized first. Teeter and others have asked a small army of potential campaign staffers--including unaffiliated G.O.P. pollsters, media buyers and veteran organizers--to "stay loose" until Powell decides. Some operatives have been told to expect a "signal" by Nov. 1; others look for a mid-November announcement...
...view of some Iraq watchers, Hussein Kamel, whose teeter-totter fortunes looked to be on the upswing again recently, has been advocating a more aboveboard treatment of U.N. monitors, whose job is to search out and police the destruction of Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. According to this line, the general, who in the first place had presided over the stockpiling of Iraq's most dangerous arsenals, argued that the sooner the regime comes clean, the quicker the country might resume oil exports and normal economic life. At bottom, though, the quarrel seems to have been over spoils...