Word: balk
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...Still, there’s one thing these soon-to-be-newlyweds aren’t rushing into. All the couples interviewed for this story balk at the idea of having kids...
...bean counters will like the fares, but frequent flyers might balk if they can't rack up miles. Eos CEO David Spurlock is convinced that his airline's quality of service will keep luring the high-paying customers. "We're betting that product quality, not price, will drive the market," he says. Forecast ahead: unclear...
...third term in his generally liberal state with 67% of the vote. For that very reason, if Republicans in Congress slash federal programs that provide state funding, or ask the states to approve a balanced-budget amendment that would eventually require the same thing, G.O.P. Governors will balk...
...questions have arisen," says Ana Salado, spokeswoman for Deputy Prime Minister María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, who heads the Commission. "More than anything, the delay is due to the complexity of the issue." But to some, the delays raise suspicions that the Commission may balk at suggestions from the icv that Franco's body be moved to a private plot. If the Commission hasn't announced its recommendations by mid-November, the icv pledges to present a bill on the future of the basilica directly to Congress. "We're going to dampen the festivities...
They began losing games in ways that even the Cubs hadn't invented. Why, they blew one game on a walk-off balk. Now, any kind of balk is as improbable as a lunar eclipse. But to have your newly acquired veteran, Mike Stanton, come on to relief pitch in the bottom of the 10th, a man on first and third, and have him lose the game with some imperceptible twitch of a muscle, spotted only by a man in blue 70 ft. away who then waves home the winning run without the benefit of a single batted ball...