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tightrope ['taɪt`rop]

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tightrope

[ noun ]
tightly stretched rope or wire on which acrobats perform high above the ground
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"We're running a tightrope between an attempt to keep things normal and secure," Superintendent Donald Monroe said. "We shouldn't tell schools across America to lock their doors to the neighborhoods around them," Monroe said.
"Does an airline pilot wear a parachute?" asks the longtime admirer of French tightrope walker Philippe Petit.
But "we're walking a tightrope," he adds, because some change is essential.
Few manage to walk this tightrope without succumbing to a 'buzz' haircut (shaved up the back of the neck), platforms or Japanese deconstructionism. One who managed it was the minimalist Sophie Hicks, now an architect.
As it is now, school administrators walk a tightrope between the demands of the community and the realities of how children really act when they are away from home.
The French are hoping, by walking the tightrope between Baghdad and Tehran, to eventually win a hefty share of the Iranian arms market.
Mr. Heyman, unlike others who walked the LBO tightrope, came out a winner.
"They continue to walk the tightrope between trying to remain profitable and (expanding) market share," he added.
I've walked this tightrope long enough and I'm getting tired.
Like many other types of short-term, emergency financing, it can be a tightrope walk that imposes severe penalties if you take a misstep.
Dean Burch, a former Federal Communications Commission chairman, will need the balance of a tightrope walker to guide the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization into a period of competition, industry specialists said.
BIELSKO-BIALA, Poland (AP) _ Lech Walesa is a man on a tightrope these days, a man wearing two types of working clothes: a blue suit for his talks with the government and a jacket and jeans for his union supporters.
At present he is walking a tightrope between them, alone, surviving on great defensive political skills, but running the risk of losing the support of both sides.
News organizations have tried to walk a tightrope, demonstrating proper deference to the ailing monarch but saying enough to show their concern.
Politically, Mr Hariri is walking a tightrope between the different factions.
That gives a firmer grip on marketing but requires high sales volumes to be economic. Cadbury Schweppes' success in treading this tightrope has depended heavily on its agility and skill in forging alliances around the world with its bigger rivals.
The Federal Reserve in recent months has been walking a tightrope, hoping to keep interest rates high enough to dampen inflationary pressures but low enough to avoid a recession, said Washington economic consultant Michael K. Evans.
Southland is walking a tightrope, trying to complete a planned bailout by a Japanese retailer but also considering a Chapter 11 filing.
In 1859, French acrobat Emile Blondin crossed Niagara Falls on a tightrope in front of 5,000 spectators.

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