Word: loathful
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...lose their normal scholarships and subsidized loans simply because they have failed to comply with some unrelated federal law Unless Harvard makes up for the loss of these funds. It will allow the federal government to dictate its financial and policy. The University, it is said, should be particularly loath to allow this to happen when the students involved are losing government support because of their sincere moral convictions and when the loss of and may have the inequitable result of forcing needy students to suffer more for their beliefs than their more affluent classmates...
...openly channel aid to the contras through friendly countries. Central American governments are understandably loath to be the bagman for what is seen by many in the region as Yanqui imperialism. As Reagan said last week: "We'd be asking some other government to do what our Congress has said...
...well Elway could play was a question, but how well he would be paid was not. The baseball "rights" to Elway belonged to the New York Yankees, who belong to George Steinbrenner, a free spender capable of buying a pennant and everything else on the shelf. And he seems loath to pay less than $1 million for anything. In six weeks of minor league baseball last summer, Class A ball in Oneonta, N.Y., Outfielder Elway batted .318. However, since Class A pitchers seldom throw a curve on purpose, there was naturally some uncertainty about whether Elway could ever...
Though humans are understandably loath to relinquish their monopoly on intelligence, observers have long believed that a good case can be made for the animal mind. At a weekend symposium at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., a group of scientists put their brains together to decide whether or not animals think. Their conclusion: an unequivocal maybe...
...despite the benefit of hindsight and the opportunity to pose solutions that cannot be tested against events. The Administration's dithering over the Soviet-Cuban intervention in Ethiopia was, he asserts, a disastrous turning point. The fault, he quickly adds, lay largely with Vance and others who were loath to exert power. If Brzezinski had had his way, the U.S. would have sternly warned the Kremlin about the effect of its Ethiopian gambit on arms-control talks. He would have perhaps even sent an aircraft carrier to show the flag off the Horn of Africa. Brzezinski's response...