Word: loathful
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...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...
Blair House left Clinton to ponder his campaign pledge. In public he now calls his promise to cut the deficit in half in four years "a goal." Privately he understands that a true halving (in absolute dollars) would require a gasoline tax and other levies he is loath to impose. Eventually, the political trick will probably involve redefining the problem, either by 1) claiming that halving the deficit as a ratio of the debt to the gross domestic product should be considered a promise fulfilled or 2) arguing that there are different kinds of deficits, and that any funds appropriated...
...only part of the college housing policy that must remain in place is the ability to transfer. Complete randomization could easily be instituted, as long as those who loath their living conditions intensely would be allowed to move...
...part, Diana appears to have expected "a meaningful relationship," to use her generation's argot. Not royal at all. Like his father and many noble males, Charles is mulishly set in his ways, loath to show any feelings, not to speak of the emotional give-and-take involved in an ordinary marriage...