Word: loath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Behind Pan Am's steely negotiating stance are some formidable cost-control problems. With the increased competition created by deregulation, the airline is loath to raise fares to meet rising expenses. Pan Am is already saddled with stiff operating costs. Its pilots, for instance, are among the highest paid in the U.S. The captain of a Pan Am Boeing 747 jetliner can earn $150,000 annually for an average 55 flight hours each month. At People Express, pilots of similar jets make $40,000 a year while flying closer to the industry average of 85 hours. Said Robert Joedicke...
...instinctively sympathetic to the arguments of Edward Teller and other outside advocates of new defensive systems. But both the Defense and State Departments were wedded to traditional deterrence. Giving new emphasis to a defensive policy would be wrenching, and Reagan's then National Security Adviser, William Clark, was loath to upset his "client" bureaucracies. Thus when Teller obtained an audience with Reagan on Sept. 14, ) 1982, Clark attended as devil's advocate. He posed skeptical questions that tended to undercut the scientist's presentation...
Almost immediately, nearly everyone's attention was focused on Poland and Hungary. In October, Wladyslaw Gomulka had been elected First Secretary of the Polish party's Central Committee in defiance of the Soviets. Khrushchev and other leaders felt constrained to accept Gomulka because they were loath to suppress the Poles by force. "You know," a friend in the Foreign Ministry told me, "the Poles hate us; they would fight at the drop of a hat." I knew it was true. Still, there was no danger that Poland could break away from...
Since Reagan has flunked the deficit-trimming test, and House Democratic leaders are equally loath to cut Social Security, the Senate Republican leaders have been left to salvage the situation. They decided to offer their own deficit-cutting plan two weeks ago after a meeting with Administration officials, including Baker, Richard Darman and Budget Director David Stockman...
...many members of Congress, the balloon seems filled with lead. They are loath to brave the wrath of the many constituents who would be hurt by the plan for the sake of a reform that does nothing to shrink the shockingly menacing deficit. Many would prefer to use tax reform as sugarcoating for a net tax increase, but that approach would clash head on with Reagan's diehard opposition to any overall tax boost. Consequently, Robert Dole, newly elected majority leader of the Republican-controlled Senate (see following story), gently told the White House that Congress would probably give...