Word: dither
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...government continues to dither when it comes to attracting businesses that could help create many new jobs. ExxonMobil has been forced to delay an investment of up to $3 billion in a massive new oil field off the coast of Java. The problem: protracted negotiations with the government and with Indonesian oil company Pertamina, which is being privatized, over revenue sharing and the length of ExxonMobil's contract. In addition, tough labor laws, which among other things make it difficult for companies to lay off workers, discourage hiring at a time when more than 9 million Indonesians are unemployed...
...dishonest or remarkably dense. Does anyone really find it hard to believe that Saddam Hussein prefers to prolong his life rather than face certain destruction at the hands of the most destructive military force ever created? Hussein will work with the U.N. because convincing a huge multinational bureaucracy to dither and delay is much more rewarding that having your house blown...
...this instance, a cuddlesome one. He has an idea of how a man feeling his way along dangerous ground, with no memory to guide him, might behave. Which is warily. He doesn't have a lot of energy to spare for comic quips or romantic dither either. Think of him as the anti...
...Constitution we're all in a dither over gives us two months to fix this. Bob Dole has joked that it's going to take a SWAT team to blast Clinton out of the Oval Office, so we don't need to be worried about whether he's going to give two weeks' notice. No fusion Cabinet, no bonding with members of the congressional opposition, will substitute for a genuine, authoritative result we can all live with, however unhappily. Only when we have that result will the winner have any hope of doing more than play-acting...
...Constitution we're all in a dither over gives us two months to fix this. Bob Dole has joked that it's going to take a swat team to blast Clinton out of the Oval Office, so we don't need to be worried about whether he's going to give two weeks' notice. No fusion Cabinet, no bonding with members of the congressional opposition, will substitute for a genuine, authoritative result we can all live with, however unhappily. Only when we have that result will the winner have any hope of doing more than play-acting...