Word: balking
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Lasch grasps that Skinner, having developed certain ideas as fully as he could, has reached some limit at which many Americans balk, but he overlooks the possible implications of this development. Most of Lasch's thought deals with correcting people who take Freud as their starting points; clinging to Freud as to the truth he neglects, except to dismiss, critics and rivals of psychoanalysis. Referring to Skinner's ideas as unacceptable "dogma," he dismisses them as politically unfeasible and ignores the question of their psychological validity...
...Blue Jays added a run in the sixth on Boyd's bases loaded balk, and Bell's seventh inning homer, his 26th, made...
Brothers is one of hundreds of computer wizards who have forgone possible profits and given away the software they have invented. Such free public-domain programs-there are now about 35,000 of them-are a bonanza for computer users who balk at paying from $40 up to $500 for the bestselling commercial titles...
...Star Wars options foreclosed against the State Department's desire to make some progress in renewing arms talks. McFarlane proposed an ingenious solution: linking acceptance of the Soviet offer with a demand that any talks include the subject of existing nuclear missiles. The Soviets might balk, which would be fine, but they might accept, which could be even better. After an interagency group that included the Pentagon worked out the details, McFarlane came out to brief reporters in time for the evening news broadcasts. He said that the U.S. "is prepared to meet," not necessarily to bargain...
...range missiles that broke off in Geneva last fall. But despite his idea of linking these items to the Soviet proposals, McFarlane explained that the U.S. was setting up "no preconditions " and promised, "We'll be at the meeting in September." If the Soviets agree to meet but balk at discussing a broad agenda, one official explained, the U.S. will simply bring up the matter of other arms negotiations when the sessions begin...