<adj.all> a rickety table a wobbly chair with shaky legs the ladder felt a little wobbly the bridge still stands though one of the arches is wonky
The Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks, wobbly after a big weekly loss, was down 11.28 points to 2,002.65 as of noon EDT.
Wall Street opened on wobbly footing and sank about 30 points in the first hour of trade.
London traders said Wall Street's wobbly performance punctuated an already declining British stock market.
The main fear is that war could disrupt oil supplies even further, worsening inflation, weakening an already wobbly U.S. economy and prompting an exodus from sensitive investments such as stocks.
But there are doubts about how far a new and wobbly coalition government will be willing or able to go.
The families piled wooden benches on top of each other in two tiers, creating a wobbly wooden platform above the water.
But thanks to one of the nation's insurance giants, he and other law enforcement agents across the nation have been turning on video cameras to capture on tape the evidence of drunken driving: swerving cars, slurred speech, wobbly steps.
David Wagoner is said to have written poetry in a back booth; Allen Ginsberg, abstract graffiti in the restroom; and Jack Leahy, the outlines for short stories on a wobbly table.
"It was my best, because I stood up on wobbly legs and suppressed my illness long enough to identify the Democrat investigators and newspaper who tried to destroy me before I ran again," he said.
But the FT-Actuaries World ex-US index is showing a gain of 28 per cent (in dollars); even the wobbly Tokyo market has provided good returns for unhedged foreigners, thanks to the super-strong yen. On the other hand, Wall Street has lagged.
Meanwhile, Francis Mer, the chairman of France's state-owned steel conglomerate Usinor-Sacilor, has told reporters that the European Community wants special treatment for a number of East European countries that are still economically wobbly.
How many junior executives does it take to cross a stream with three wobbly boards? About a dozen, but wait till you try.
The sheer unanimity of ensemble and size of tone were breathtaking. Equally striking was the arrival of a new, younger generation of solo singers: no ageing, spreading sopranos or wobbly basses here.
In 1987, the Conservatives were always some 10 points ahead in the opinion polls and there was only one minor hiccup when a rogue Gallup poll on 'wobbly Thursday' a week before the June 11 election suggested that there might not be an overall majority.
Romania, a blend of Latin passion and the subservient traditions of the Orthodox church, gained wobbly independence in the late 19th century after centuries of violent, corrupt Ottoman rule.
For the wobbly junk bond market, it was a good news, bad news situation.
Also, municipal bonds lured buying because the stock market remains wobbly, traders contended.
With Maxwell, what's alarming is how complex and interrelated things are." The prickly and litigious Mr. Maxwell lashes out at those who suggest his empire is wobbly.
He is a pillar of the now wobbly system that has kept Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, in power for six decades.
'There has been no intervention today, but the market pushed the dollar up of its own accord,' he said. Some dealers said the dollar still looked wobbly.