Sometimes -- often -- I grimace and panic, look wildly about as I totter and flail.

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Greece is not expected to default, yet, along with Spain, it continues to totter on the brink.

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The potential for significant lump sum reductions can be attributed to the teeter-totter relationship between pension lump sum values and interest rates.

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Now, as airlines around the world totter thanks to the slump hitting the industry since 11 September, American and BA could have an easier ride.

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Other government-backed funds are thought to have been buying as well, which may explain why the banks' share prices have held up even as banks elsewhere totter.

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Others are equally keen to see North Korea totter on.

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The rooftop Insanity puts riders through 3-Gs of terror, the X-Scream is a teeter-totter suspended 866-feet above the sidewalk, and Big Shot is a 4-G vertical catapult that takes riders to 1, 081-feet above the Strip.

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The RBI also coped with big and potentially destabilising capital inflows in the euphoric years before Wall Street began to totter, and has avoided a domestic financial crisis despite fast growth in banks' assets for many years.

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Spectacular attacks, be they on Afghan government buildings, Nato convoys or the US embassy are all designed to add to the impression of a failed security campaign and a client government in Kabul that will totter as western troops pull out.

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