Word: balk
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This scheme will only hurt the University in the long run. The fee hike that will take effect in January will only make HSTO less competitive with the falling prices of the cellular phone industry. Even those who harbor the most stalwart opposition to cell phones (like me) will balk at the growing prices that HSTO offers and opt for the cell phone instead. As more students take this alternative, a vicious cycle will ensue. Fewer students will use HSTO for long distance service, lowering its revenue. In order to break even, HSTO will have to raise the rates, causing...
...have tended to agree on, historically, is that they don't like armed foreigners in their midst. They united to fight the Soviets, and even now a clear distinction is made by anti-Taliban forces between the Afghan Talibans (forgivable) and the foreign volunteers (unforgivable). They're unlikely to balk at small numbers of U.S. special forces pursuing Al Qaeda in the south, but the Northern Alliance has made clear its opposition to an international peacekeeping mission - indeed, pressure from the Alliance appears to have postponed planned British deployments last weekend. Still, many observers believe peace will not last long...
...Winners GERRY ADAMS Sinn Fein leader scores I.R.A. disarmament, $570,000 book deal. Publishers, however, balk at his proposed title: So We Bombed a Few Pubs NASA Long-suffering agency's Odyssey finally orbits Mars. Of course, Martians have been living among us and mutilating cattle for decades SADDAM HUSSEIN Iraqi dictator sends conciliatory e-mail to U.S. programmer, then gets embroiled in 'N Sync-rules, Backstreet-sucks chat-room debate Losers Elton John Pianist disparages the Dalai Lama's Afghanistan peace pleas. He goes on to disparage Galliano for abandoning the strapless, male ball gown JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE Teen idol...
Governments, unlike terrorists, respond to incentives and balk at threats. Henry A. Kissinger ’50 wrote on Sept. 12 that “any government that shelters groups capable of this kind of attack, whether or not they can be shown to have been involved in this attack, must pay an exorbitant price.” It is very simple. Every regime has a vested interest in its own survival. When America and her allies demonstrate that the Taliban’s tolerance for terror is incompatible with self-preservation, people like Osama bin Laden will become international...
...education: the Core curriculum. Although the administration seeks to broaden students’ perspectives through the Core, it has instead limited the undergraduate learning experience with restricted offerings and prohibitively large class sizes. We celebrate the intensity of learning in the Freshman Seminars for the same reason that we balk at the watered-down courses offered in the Core. Moreover, the increased teaching demands on professors imposed by the expanded Freshman Seminar program may lead to even fewer Core offerings in the future...