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The business has been on a high wire for the past few months.
Many people confidently walk the financial high wire of life without a safety net.
The Aguilar brothers perform 25 feet above the arena on the high wire.
He learned trapeze moves when he was just a child, and soon was able to walk the high wire.
It is a safety net and not a high wire.
It is a high wire act because so many things are at stake.
Up to last year, fishmeal was always regarded as the safety net for fishermen, on the high wire of the more lucrative markets.
It was designed as a safety net, but in many respects it has now become a high wire for farmers.
Of course, individuals in these two trajectory groups are likely to have, at least initially, more personal and contextual resources to successfully take on the high wire act.
The compensatory model findings just summarized suggest that across the broader achievement and affiliation developmental tasks, maintaining a salutary wellbeing trajectory is somewhat of a "high wire" act.
Life skills, as applied to performance on the high wire, are taken up through bipolar constructs from clear-minded to muddleheaded.
The high wire one-stem training system was applied.