Word: loath
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...returning the Golan to Syria, but as a demilitarized zone monitored by the U.S. or some other international authority. A deal that treats any movement of Syrian military hardware into that zone as an act of war may be acceptable to Israel's generals. Of course, many Israelis are loath to trust their Arab neighbors, and would just as soon hang on to all the real estate they can. But Barak holds a trump card: Israel continues to pay a heavy price in human life for its occupation of southern Lebanon, and the call for Israeli withdrawal is overwhelmingly popular...
...customary with science, the experts are loath to jump to conclusions until all the data is in and all the causes and effects are connected. Scientists almost universally agree that the earth has warmed by about one degree Fahrenheit in this century. Some attribute that to the so-called greenhouse effect, caused by man-made gases that trap the sun's heat on the earth's surface, raising water and air temperatures. Some believe that the warming may be linked to the natural hot and cold cycles that have affected the earth since prehistory, causing, for instance, the ice ages...
...other programs. It's a question of how we do it." The GOP is desperate not to be the ones to bust those 1997 spending caps (the ones on which all those mammoth surpluses are based) or dip into the Social Security trust fund. But they?re also loath to cut into programs that voters want, programs that Clinton can excoriate them for slicing up. So voil? ? the millennium just got a little longer...
...gathered at the Branch Davidian site, seeking to take it out of the unplumbable depths of FBI bureaucracy and make it available to outside experts. Francis was involved in another controversy last week when he told the Dallas Morning News that Delta Force units--whose existence the Pentagon is loath to confirm--may have taken part in the siege, a violation of the law. The Pentagon conceded that three Army personnel were in Waco on April 19 but only as observers and technical advisers...
After a school year packed with performances, Harvard's student actors and directors are loath to let a stage go bare for three months. Fortunately, the Harvard Radcliffe Summer Theatre (HRST) is around to fill the theatrical void...