Other harsh ceremonies, such as circumcision without anesthetic, teeth sharpening, and physical disfiguration, make what I suggest individual investors endure seem like a tiptoe through the tulips by comparison.

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"It'll be interesting to see whether the cash that's sitting there looking to get invested uses this as a reason to tiptoe back into the market, or if it's another reason to say, 'It's over, ' again, " he said.

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Cappelli's side business works, in part, because he doesn't have to tiptoe around a boss.

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It's I Stood Tiptoe Upon a Little Hill, which was inspired by a walk on Hampstead Heath in London.

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The key is to tiptoe carefully into a diversified group of high-yield names with specific maturities whose balance sheets are good and whose price moves, based on interest rate fluctuations (called duration), will be muted.

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This is a bedrock argument of the Obamacare foes, and it must tiptoe around some inconvenient facts of daily life such as state car insurance mandates (they are state laws, and states have practically unlimited powers under the Constitution).

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