They do not have to keep spinning all of the sticks under the plates at the same time to keep all of the plates spinning (and thus keep them from falling off the sticks).

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As you heard last night, that's why we're putting in place the policies that will enable us to reduce the debt we inherited and deal with the spending required to keep us from falling off the cliff this year.

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Moments earlier, the soldier asked the medics to keep his leg from falling off the gurney as they hurried him into the emergency room.

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The jagged pieces of the mosaic keep dropping off the wall and falling to the floor with a clatter.

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Though I laughed at the warning sign depicting a stick-figure falling head-first off the cliffs, I made sure to keep a safe distance from the drop-off for fear that the wind might actually propel me over.

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She may well be right if the iPad and other tablet computers take off, the prices of dedicated e-readers such as Amazon's Kindle keep falling and more consumers start reading books on smart-phones.

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Per-minute charges will keep falling, but average monthly revenues per subscriber-down 35% over the past five years-will level off through 2000.

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