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Another oldtimer, Henry Hawkins of Glocester likewise speaks of swaling birches, adding that it did not always work out as one hoped it would: sometimes the 15-20-foot gray birch would tip part way down only to falter, leaving the climber dangling halfway, a predicament, indeed.
The Los Angeles Times leads with the renewed outbreak of fighting between Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo as the peace talks in France falter.
But I do in fact "prefer" to have a staff that reflects something of the population that my business is meant to serve--lest my company falter and die.
The Los Angeles Times lead predicts the U.S. economy will falter in 1999.
This is why his ambition to be a public intellectual may falter.