Word: loath
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although I would like nothing better than to let the baseball debate die, I am loath to let Khentov ("Further Baseball Debate") have the final word. Khentov, I believe, is a comedian. He has passed off his own invention as a rebuttal to Lev Polinsky's article...
...They threatened to execute him, armed him with an AK-47 assault rifle and turned him into a pitiless killing machine aimed at his family, friends and neighbors on the government side of Mozambique's civil war. "They told me I must fight in order to eat," he stutters, loath to recall those years. "I killed people. I saw their faces when I hurt them." He cannot look a questioner in the eyes. "Now," says this boy-man who subsists by cutting bamboo, "life is good, because I don't have the heavy heart of a fighter...
...guardians of unclaimed frozen embryos because couples lose contact with the lab either by choice or by not supplying forwarding addresses. Clinics must then decide whether to destroy the embryos after a certain period of time or keep them frozen indefinitely. Without a specific, notarized directive, IVF clinics are loath to destroy these "orphan" embryos. And although they can be long frozen, as your story indicated, they are certainly not "lost." DAVID HILL, IVF Laboratory Director Center for Reproductive Medicine Century City Hospital Los Angeles
...sent to clinics that administer methadone. But that cure is nearly as troublesome as the disease it treats. Methadone produces its own high and is so addictive that it has its own black market. To receive it legally, addicts must report every day to authorized clinics, something many are loath to do. Before buprenorphine, Ted tried methadone and found the experience a lot like taking heroin--only he had to get his fix in front of a mangy group of drug pushers and criminals. The scene made him feel closer to drugs, not free of them...
Just as Seinfeld is quick to give his co-stars and collaborators the lion's share of credit for the show's success ("My real talent," he says, "is in picking people"), he is loath to ascribe any cultural significance to Seinfeld, even while in a somewhat valedictory mood. The show's aims, he insists, are entirely unpretentious: "I really aspire to The Abbott and Costello Show. That's my favorite sitcom. We walk down the street and bump into Bania, the bad comedian, the way Lou Costello would bump into Stinky, and then a scene comes...