Word: loath
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...international hunting bans because past efforts to exploit the beasts commercially have driven their populations into precipitous decline. Countries that have well- managed elephant herds, including Zimbabwe, South Africa and Botswana, are eager to sell ivory, just as Norway and Japan want to kill whales. But conservationists are loath to exempt specific nations from the ivory-trade ban for fear that any traffic in tusks will bring a reprise of the rampant cheating that occurred before sales became illegal...
...rights to the multimillion-dollar market for T shirts bearing Jordan's image. "In marketing, Nike is far more powerful than the league," says N.B.A. deputy commissioner Russ Granik. "They are the giant, and we're the mouse." Player representatives, seeing endorsement money rolling in to Nike athletes, are loath to criticize the company. "There are no rules barring what Nike is doing," says Charles Grantham, executive director of the N.B.A. Players Association...
...SURRENDER to an unbelieving world he just knows is likely to clap him in jail for life? Federal authorities besieging the compound of the Branch Davidian cult outside Waco, Texas, have found no answers. After the Feb. 28 shoot-out that led to perhaps 14 deaths, the feds are loath to rush the cult's heavily armed compound again. Interminable telephone talks with cult leader David Koresh have got nowhere. Koresh did let Kathryn Schroeder, whose husband died in the shoot-out, and an adult man, the first to be let go, come out Friday. That left, it is thought...
...other day during his hillside sermon. In urging the world "to prove who is the highest authority," he wanted to know, "is it Rabin and his Supreme Court or the U.N. Security Council?" It is neither, of course, but rather the world's single surviving superpower, which, however loath it may be to use it, still has the power to utter the most important...
...starters, we need to redouble the effort to trim government waste, unpleasant as that will be for its beneficiaries, and to get people off welfare, because without the feeling that their money is being well spent, taxpayers will be loath to ante up more of it. If you're part of the waste being eliminated, do Bill a favor: don't write your Congressman. If you're a college grad who's welshed on his student loan, do Bill a favor...