Word: balking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been easy to be an environmentalist: one simply has to claim to be one. Just as middle-class voters routinely condemn "welfare" while opposing cuts in the social programs that constitute such spending, a good portion of the voters who claim they would pay for environmental improvements balk when the bill is presented. If consumers truly insisted on cleaner air in their individual buying and voting decisions, Detroit and Japan would vie to deliver less polluting cars, and it would not take ten years of struggle to amend the Clean...
...opener started on a negative note when Harvard starter Julie Fromholz surrendered an unearned run to the Turtles on an error, a wild pitch, a balk and a sacrifice bunt in the first inning...
Well-intentioned but slightly befuddled, American politicians rush to assist Hungary in its transition to democracy. -- East Germany's Modrow is the lamest of lame ducks. -- The contras and the Sandinistas balk at demobilization...