She tripped over her oxygen tank.

Entering the house, I tripped over the mat.

I tripped on the reality of this ecology of creativity just last week.

Was BoA tripped up by bad luck or sloppiness? Or did it and other financial institutions behave with intent to defraud investors?

Just a couple of years ago, India was developing a reputation as the cool place to invest. Heads of state tripped over one another to meet business leaders in Mumbai, hoping to pave the way for a significant expansion of trade and investment.

Destabilized by too much short term debt and too much exposure to risky, overvalued, low quality mortgage backed securities, they tripped and fell over it. So regulators have focused on command and control orders to financial firms to increase their equity, and to reduce the riskiness of their investments.

When I started this project called On the Road A Search For an American Character with my tape recorder, I thought that I was going to go around America and find it in all its aspects bull riders, cowboys, pig farmers, drum majorettes but I sort of got tripped on race relations, because my first big show was a show about a race riot.