Word: balks
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...current underclassmen to have the choice between completing their general education curriculum through Core requirements or distributional alternatives). Any hesitation or retreat on this issue will translate only to more generations of Harvard College students encumbered by the same antiquated regime of general education. There is no reason to balk now: ultimately the decision about general education requirements (like most other curricular review decisions) is in the hands of the Faculty, a group that will remain largely unchanged between now and the autumn, and whose discretion and prudence are even-handed enough to finalize this issue in the coming months...
Then in 1998 the U.S. firm Hoffmann--La Roche agreed to pay $200 million for the right to develop drugs based on some of deCODE's data. The idea that a foreign company might profit from their personal information made many Icelanders balk. A woman named Ragnhildur Gudmundsdottir sued to keep her deceased father's medical records from going into the deCODE-run database, citing a right to privacy, and in 2003 Iceland's supreme court ruled in her favor...
...Still, there’s one thing these soon-to-be-newlyweds aren’t rushing into. All the couples interviewed for this story balk at the idea of having kids...
...bean counters will like the fares, but frequent flyers might balk if they can't rack up miles. Eos CEO David Spurlock is convinced that his airline's quality of service will keep luring the high-paying customers. "We're betting that product quality, not price, will drive the market," he says. Forecast ahead: unclear...
...third term in his generally liberal state with 67% of the vote. For that very reason, if Republicans in Congress slash federal programs that provide state funding, or ask the states to approve a balanced-budget amendment that would eventually require the same thing, G.O.P. Governors will balk...