Word: balking
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With unemployment inching up in the U.S., Washington legislators may balk at any kind of guest-worker reform. But, Castaneda argues, "the economic downturn, for the moment at least, is not affecting the sectors of the [U.S.] economy where Mexican immigration is a factor. We are not hearing about layoffs in hotels or restaurants or the fields of California or the meatpacking plants of Iowa or the flower shops in New York. Companies where Mexican labor is employed are telling us there is no slackening of demand...
...ironic, then, that according to friends, Levy had had two or three affairs with married men before she ever met Gary Condit. Each relationship, her friends say, would culminate in Levy demanding a "real" life with her paramour - who would inevitably balk and push her away...
...collaboration came in May, when five of the experts joined TIME's editors for lunch and worked through the list. "The rules were simple," explains Phil. "Every name got a number: 1 for Must Do, 2 for Maybe, and 3 for No Way. I thought our guests would balk at rating their colleagues so crassly, but they played the game enthusiastically, perhaps because as academics and research funders they are skilled at recognizing talent and used to comparing diverse fields...
...took two Northeastern miscues to bring Harvard's first run across. Pena dropped a Javy Lopez fly ball to open the bottom of the fifth, an error that landed Lopez on second base. He later trotted home from third on a balk by Burns to break the shutout...
...past week. That grueling schedule, combined with the four-hour bus ride north to Burlington to the Catamounts' (17-10, 5-7 America East) Centennial Field, may well have hurt Harvard's sharpness and contributed to the team's generally sloppy play, which included five errors, ten walks, a balk, and six unearned runs...