falter
falter.01 - misstep
FALTER-V NOTES: Note that you can easily restate the former example as"because of". (from falter.01-v)Aliases:
falter (v.)
Roles:
ARG1-PAG: thing faltering
purpose
Western Union has had major losses in recent years as
its telex businessARG1
has falteredrel
in the face of competition from facsimile machinesARGM-CAU
and as other business ventures have gone awry .location
Still , with
competitors such as Eastman Kodak Co.ARG1
falteringrel
in copier salesARGM-LOC
, Xerox 's sales increases `` were encouraging , '' says Eugene Glazer of Dean Witter Reynolds Inc.