"I looked at it as a four-legged stool with one leg very deep in the ocean, " recalls Fluxman, a tanned, toned South African who first came aboard as chief financial officer and chief operating officer, stepping up to chief executive officer six years ago.

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That could leave Mr Chavez increasingly reliant on the third leg of the stool: the armed forces' high command.

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Now, the recovery and reinvestment package is not the only thing we have to do -- it's one leg of the stool.

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On Wednesday, the digital magazine service goes live on Windows 8 devices, adding the third leg to a stool that already contains the iPad and Android tablets.

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Failing to address matters of concern to the various parts of the Republican base - and to the future of our nation - is a formula for his defeat, no matter how compelling his position may be on economic and fiscal matters, the one leg of the stool on which his campaign currently rests.

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What this all means is that IT security has become the fourth leg of the computing stool, supplementing computation, storage and communications.

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Understand that the concept of the Nuclear Security Summit that we set up was not directed at the specific issue of Iran or North Korea, but was directed at one leg of a multi-legged stool when it comes to our nuclear security.

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The fourth leg, if you will, of the stool is interest payments on the debt, which you address by addressing the other three.

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