Word: balk
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Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier have done it, but no black man has ever acted Othello in a major movie. Now LAURENCE FISHBURNE is close to signing on to play Shakespeare's Moor in a version directed by Kenneth Branagh. Some actors, given current sensitivities, might balk at playing theater's most famous wife killer, especially if they had won renown as bad husband Ike Turner in What's Love Got to Do with It? But at least this time Fishburne won't have to wear mean purple bell-bottoms...
Almost immediately after Bolduc resigned, the institutional shareholders that hold sizable chunks of Grace stock became worried that his departure would mean that the company's 22-member board would balk at reforming itself. Among other things, investors wanted a smaller board with fewer members over the age of 70. Grace arrived in a wheelchair last week to address his last board meeting as chairman. Weakened by radiation treatments, he was unable to read aloud the full text in which he condemned "the scheme" used to oust him from power. But when the meeting was over, Grace and eight other...
Legislators in the United States should not balk at the registration of all firearms. The mere ownership of a deadly weapon brings with it huge responsibilities; registration constitutes an acknowledgment of that responsibility. The police will never need to trace a registration unless the weapon is involved in a crime. Why deny the police a valuable way of identifying criminals...
...that is not what the populist, even radical, national party wants. Whitman pleased conservatives in Tuesday's rebuttal by repeating the canard that Clinton was responsible for the biggest tax hike in history. (Right answer: Ronald Reagan in 1982.) But her other positions make conservatives balk. For one, she is pro-choice. She also does not believe sexual orientation on its own should bar a person from a job--even in the military. And while Whitman backs such ``Contract with America'' standards as the balanced-budget amendment, she may just back away from their consequences. Billions of dollars in federal...
Linda Carlisle said the main problems state administrators face is the extensive paperwork and the struggle to acquire much needed funding. "Legislator balk at increasing funds" for social programs because they do not produce tangible or visible results--such as roads or more police officers on the streets, Carlisle said...