Word: balking
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...faculty members have given for avoiding real reform in the way courses are evaluated at Harvard. Today, members of the Faculty have the opportunity to end their hypocrisy and submit themselves to the same type of rigorous evaluation they frequently demand of their students. We hope they do not balk once again...
...outnumber its shiny, new features, as evidenced by the fact that it has only a three out of five star rating on Amazon’s own website.The biggest hurdle Kindle faces is its cost. Consumers used to the relatively inexpensive iPod (80 gigabytes for $250 at Amazon) may balk at Kindle’s $400 price tag. Worse, $9.99 per book feels like highway robbery, given that Amazon will deliver hardcopies of gently used books to your door for half that price, shipping included...
...people might balk at Rowling’s audacity to “out” a character after the books have already been published. But it is precisely because Rowling has waited this long that her revelation will have such a great effect. She has tricked the homophobes into loving and mourning for a man whom they would have just as easily dismissed as monster or freak had they known his secret earlier. She has implicitly shown that sexuality need not be the defining characteristic of a wizard, that it does not correspond to some standard stereotype?...
...indigenous community) and New Zealand will involve 1,200 subjects who have had a cardiovascular event. A problem with patients in this category is that, after six months or so, many stop taking the battery of medications prescribed to prevent a second episode. Often they feel well and balk at the cost, inconvenience or stigma of popping five pills a day. But slackening off can be deadly: between a third and a half of the more than 50,000 Australians (and 11,800 New Zealanders) who die each year from cardiovascular disease have previously survived a heart attack or stroke...
...characterize social groups based along racial and ethnic lines. “Segregation has a negative connotation, like ‘black students are imposing this extreme negative on themselves. Segregation is terrible and now they’re doing it to themselves.’ We kind of balk at the term ‘self-segregation’ because we feel good about what we do here, how we interact with each other,” he says...