Word: cagey
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...appeal among Muslims around the world and condemned the Sept. 11 attacks. And even as al-Qaeda tries to link its struggle to that of Palestinians against Israel, Khatami said Tehran would recognize Israel's right to exist if the Palestinian people chose to do so. A politically cagey if, but still a big step for Iran...
...less-interesting missing-persons adventure. But while dature may abhor a vacuum, dark media suspicions flower in one. Condit's public pose - the politician's equivalent of pulling your coat over your head - has left the hordes one of two impressions: of a cowardly (and foolish) innocent or a cagey monster...
...rival team, Riess knew of the discovery, but he learned soon afterward that other Hubble photos had also caught the supernova, completely by chance. So one day last summer, he recalls, "I called Peter and began fishing around for information. I guess I wasn't especially cagey. He said almost right away, 'Are you asking about 1997ff...
...slender TV-game-show contestants to start eating each other - or worse, the cameramen - they taunted them with pleasures of the tongue and teased out the greedy (Nick - could we stop feeding these people Doritos, please?), the foolish (Amber, falling for the glass-of-water "Mystery item") and the cagey. That last would of course would be Colby, holding out for a protein bar and laughing it up with Amber afterward when everybody started running for the john...
...argument is that many problem drinkers can be helped with this approach - people who think the total abstinence route taken by Alcoholics Anonymous is (in the cagey phrase) "not for them...