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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 leads with the renewed outbreak of fighting between Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo as the peace talks in France falter.
But should that willingness ever falter, one thing is sure: No "worker adjustment" program will be able to measure the harm, much less assuage it.
This is why his ambition to be a public intellectual may falter.
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.