Word: balks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Judges' fifth inning rally proved only a little more solid. A walk and a single placed runners on first and second, and a Sutton balk placed runners on second and third...
...that the legislative language covers. When Illinois authorities used RICO to sue a gasoline dealer for understating his state sales tax receipts, a federal appeals court ruled with "distress" that the statute was broad enough to allow the suit. In recent years a few federal courts began to balk at the more ingenious applications. But in a 5-to-4 decision last July, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected some of the methods that lower courts had tried for putting brakes on RICO. Justice Byron White concluded for the majority that while Congress may not have expected legitimate businesses...
...REAGAN Administration has taken the moral high ground on the issue of abortion. Not coming out to condemn abortion clinic bombings. Yet there is a hypocrisy inherent in a government that can call for $100 million to finance killing in Nicaragua and yet balk against sending $100 to terminate a rapist-induced pregnancy in New York City...
...noted he is shot. Is a local official corrupt? He too is killed. All the while, the guerrillas distribute food and help with the farming. For some, this image of the N.P.A. as a band of benign vigilantes takes hold. But for many others, it quickly tarnishes. Some villagers balk because the advance team has already pushed on to the next villages, leaving in its wake a "shadow government" that coerces support and suppresses criticism. Others are shocked when the guerrillas destroy businesses belonging to people who have refused to pay N.P.A. "taxes." Most important, many who may initially welcome...
EUROPEAN GOVERNMENTS remain deaf to all this reasoning. They seem to prefer continued strong ties to the "hard-line" Arab states and favor leaving the role of "terrorism policeman" to the United States. But the time may come when Americans balk at this burden, and the time may also come when Europeans find themselves extremely vulnerable to more than just terrorism. Continued appeasement of men like Khadafy entails many risks, not the least of which is the strengthening of radical hands in the Arab balance of power...