Word: balking
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...Jerusalem to brief the Israelis. They do ot quite know what to expect, for the Sectary has not been consulting the Israeli leaders. Stated Naftali Lavie, Foreign Minister Dayan's spokesman: "We are totally in the dark." In his talks with Vance Premier Menachem Begin will probably balk at negotiating any substantive issues of a potential peace settlement. As he did during his summit with Carter last month Begin will focus on procedural points insisting that substantive points are better solved at a conference with the Arab states...
Some Southwestern veterans also balk at selling the books, which they believe are of questionable educational value, in low-income neighborhoods where the people they are selling to may not be able to afford them...
...Power Commission as approving interstate rates for gas pipelines and electric-power sales. It is the most politically vulnerable of the Carter proposals because DOE'S regulators would not be serving for fixed terms as an independent agency that is insulated from politics like the FPC. Congress could balk, and White House staffers admit that they are "apprehensive" about this aspect of the DOE plan. The Administration hopes to overcome objections about a lack of independence among the DOE regulators by creating a bipartisan appeals board to review their rate decisions...
...wood carver is more limited by the size of his raw material than any other sculptor. A log is a log; it cannot be melted down or extended. One can order marble to size, but no tree in China or Japan could possibly give a sculptor a large enough balk of timber to carve something as big as Michelangelo's David. Even if there was such a tree, there would be insuperable problems of technique. Wood is grainy. It favors continuous, compressed shapes with a strong axis along the grain. Anything that sticks sideways from the block...
Back-to-back singles by sophomore Doug Morgan and freshman Fred Cordova in the bottom of the first inning, an accomodating bobble by Mass Bay's centerfielder, and a balk brought Morgan home...