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Traders are betting her focus on aggressive fiscal polices, supported by near-zero interest rates and structural overhauls, will add to the nation’s teetering debt pile.

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If it can’t get payments from tenants quickly enough to cover its debt needs, the company’s business model could teeter.

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A brown foal with a white stripe on its muzzle teetered on toothpick legs.

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In June, Russia's Minister for Economic Development, Maxim Reshetnikov, warned that the country's economy was teetering "on the brink of recession".

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Shedding allies, the LGBTQ+ coalition teeters on the tail of this recent Quiet Pride, with public institutions that have been loudly supportive in the recent past intimidated into whispers, or all-out silence.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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