Word: loath
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...after decades of chronic underinvestment and the longest waiting lists for operations have been reduced. The Labour government has been loath, however, to question the basic structure of the NHS - to the detriment of British patients who can't afford private care, says Dr. Maurice Slevin, an oncologist and member of the U.K. organization Doctors for Reform. "Here patients have no power," he says. "We want to move away from a Soviet-style, monolithic, nationalized industry that provides very poor value for money." Slevin says the number of managers in the NHS has grown three times faster than medical staff...
...market, the government still sets the price electricity companies must pay for coal. This spring, that figure hovered at just two-thirds of the free-market price. This is meant to make electricity cheaper for consumers, but with so many industries gobbling up coal, many coal companies are loath to supply power plants. As a result, coal reserves held by China's electricity sector were down 40% last month compared with the same period the previous year. One major power plant in the eastern province of Jiangsu admitted that it had only three days' worth of coal reserves, according...
...women loath to take credit for their accomplishments...
...Adams House Committee is loath to give up elite privilege: According to one Adams House resident, HoCo members posted to Adams Schmooze that interlopers sneaking in at meals would be ferreted out and would have their Harvard ID cards confiscated. “I got an e-mail that said it was going to be official policy,” the resident said. These antics must stop at once. A poor, tired and hungry student—once turned away on account of housing-lottery accident—might in a fairer arrangement be suffered to have his desire...
...latter-day Scopes Trial—a conflict between religious zealots on one side and proponents of scientific rationalism on the other. And, to be sure, many people’s opposition to such research is an understandable function of their faith. Yet while the media are loath to acknowledge it, there is also a very solid case against stem-cell research based not in religiosity, but in logic and simple moral reasoning...