Word: balk
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...video, too. A media converter program that accompanies the player automatically reformats all kinds of video files so that they look decent on the Sansa. I loaded up AVI, QuickTime MOV and WMV files, in addition to several different types of MPEG video, and the system didn't balk at any of it. I even loaded a full-length feature film - Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle - and though the system divided it up into small chapters, I could watch the whole movie. It wasn't easy to make out a letterboxed widescreen film on the Sansa...
...three shots given over six months, the vaccine, which was developed by Merck, is among the most expensive on the market. The price tag alone probably puts it out of reach for many uninsured women in the U.S. (as well as those whose insurance companies balk at the cost), not to mention millions of poor women in the developing world, where cervical cancer is a leading cause of death. The Gates Foundation announced last week that it will spend $28 million over the next five years to determine whether a cervical-cancer vaccine can be made more widely available...
...digital cameras, Oxyride can't hold a candle to Energizer's disposable e2 lithium battery, which delivered 3,107 digital shots to Oxyride's 990 according to the results of a comparative test in the June issue of POPULAR SCIENCE. But Panasonic is banking that most people will balk at paying $10 for a four-pack of lithium batteries when they can get a four-pack of Oxyrides...
Experts agree. Americans consume 10 billion bowls of soup each year, but virtually all at home. While other chains offer soup, few have focused on it as a meal in itself, says Harry Balzer of the NPD Group. Will customers balk at the prices? The 12-oz. SoupMan containers typically sell for $5 to $7. "People just expect soup to be inexpensive," he says...
Economics concentrators might balk at the idea of writing a close-reading paper for a Literature and Arts A course (close reading exercises may seem, to them, the equivalent of a problem set), chemistry concentrators may very well abhor their Moral Reasoning exams, but practicing writing, it seems to me, is always practical. Expos, in theory, prepares every Harvard student for four years of academic writing, and these early lessons are borne out through the undergraduate years, as most students will write a paper of some sort each semester...