Word: faintheartedness
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The more fainthearted French employ the services of airborne passeurs (roughly, smugglers), who take 1% of the money transmitted as a fee. Several times a week, for example, a single-engine Cessna from a field in Switzerland lands on a French meadow where cows are peaceably grazing. Awaiting it is...
"The meeting is a cross between a self-criticism session in a Soviet factory and question time in the British House of Commons. It is no place for the thin-skinned or the nervous. Smoking is forbidden and only mineral water is on hand to revive the fainthearted. Those attending...
Hardly anybody disputes the proposition that today's system of private auto insurance is a frustrating failure. Angered by soaring premiums, abruptly canceled policies and dubious compensation to victims for losses and injuries, millions of Americans have concluded that radical reform of the $12 billion-a-year industry is...
Despite the visible health and prosperity of existing denominations, there is a considerable number of future-oriented theologians who feel that the church, in large parts of the world, is entering a stage of Diaspora-when, like Judaism, it will survive in the form of a scattered few, the hidden...
At any rate, short selling is no game for novices or the fainthearted. The most that a buyer of stock stands to lose, even if his shares crash to zero, is his original investment. But the short seller's risk is unlimited, since technically there is no ceiling on...