Word: loath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American League's West Division, the most admirable or deplorable in baseball, turned on small events. Loath to blame each other, California's affluent Angels considered themselves scuttled on fan appreciation day by an unappreciative fan who stayed with a foul pop-up even though Third Baseman Doug DeCinces had clearly called for it. This precipitated an extra-inning loss to Texas and so unnerved the Angels that they dropped the first three games of the climactic four-game series in Kansas City. Meanwhile, players of lesser means and greater resilience, the Minnesota Twins, were undone...
Still, Hollywood seems to be growing more safety-conscious, if not more cautious. The Screen Actors Guild reports that anonymous calls alerting it to unsafe sets have increased dramatically since the Twilight Zone accident. And stunt people - traditionally loath to turn down stunts for fear of losing a job, or face - are becoming more wary. "Ten years ago, we wouldn't have taken a second look before we did a stunt," says Fred Waugh, president of Stunts Unlimited. "Today we take a second or even a third." Many Hollywood officials hope the industry will step up its self-policing...
...Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Baldrige contended that Reagan should at least renew a proposal he made reluctantly last year for a threeyear, $50 billion tax increase, conditional on congressional approval of deep spending cuts and a string of other "ifs." But Reagan's philosophical convictions make him loath to propose any tax increase any time, and his political sensibilities make him doubly loath to do such a thing in an election year. At one point, aides inserted in a State of the Union draft a plan to appoint a bipartisan commission to make recommendations on how to attack...
...lose their normal scholarships and subsidized loans simply because they have failed to comply with some unrelated federal law Unless Harvard makes up for the loss of these funds. It will allow the federal government to dictate its financial and policy. The University, it is said, should be particularly loath to allow this to happen when the students involved are losing government support because of their sincere moral convictions and when the loss of and may have the inequitable result of forcing needy students to suffer more for their beliefs than their more affluent classmates...
...well Elway could play was a question, but how well he would be paid was not. The baseball "rights" to Elway belonged to the New York Yankees, who belong to George Steinbrenner, a free spender capable of buying a pennant and everything else on the shelf. And he seems loath to pay less than $1 million for anything. In six weeks of minor league baseball last summer, Class A ball in Oneonta, N.Y., Outfielder Elway batted .318. However, since Class A pitchers seldom throw a curve on purpose, there was naturally some uncertainty about whether Elway could ever...