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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.
This is why his ambition to be a public intellectual may 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.
Phillip Gellburg is an upscale Willy Loman who has devoted his life to a company that throws him onto the slag heap as soon as he begins to falter.