Word: loathful
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...Strawberry Statement hadn't caught on. Stanley Sweetheart hadn't even been heard from. Somewhere out there were all those youths, many of them paying more money to see Warner Brothers' version of Woodstock than they had paid to attend the actual event. So the MGM executives, never loath to jog after a trend, shoved a camera crew, armed with Metrocolor and Panavision, off to Vegas. Denis Sanders, who had recently won an Oscar for a documentary entitled Czechoslovakia, 1968, was sent along to direct; Lucien Ballard, an old hand at composing stunning Western visuals, was put in charge...
...federation plan has already had a noticeable impact on other Arab states. Algeria, loath to see a huge new power rise on its eastern border, will court Libya next month, when President Houari Boumedienne visits Tripoli...
...laws, town officials had only two ways to jolt lax parents: by applying a Michigan statute holding them civilly liable for a minor's malicious damage up to $1,500, or making their children wards of the court. Neither method worked well, partly because officials were loath to punish middle-class parents. As a result, parents tended to be tolerant about offspring misbehavior. "Their attitude was that it's kid stuff," says Chief Richardson. "Now that attitude changes when the police say 'If it happens again, you're the one in trouble because...
...Belfast and Londonderry, barbed wire, sandbag bunkers and helmeted troops have been fixtures since Northern Ireland's ancient religious antagonisms flared into violence last summer. In Calcutta and its industrial satellites police have been loath to venture off major arteries since Maoist Naxalites stabbed three of their colleagues to death in dark alleys as part of a deliberate campaign of terror. Heavy guard details have trailed diplomats in Montevideo since July, when Uruguay's Tupamaro guerrillas shed their Robin Hood image and wantonly murdered a political hostage. Canada was still tense following the brutal murder by fanatic Quebec separatists...
California has everything-usually in the wrong place. While the north has a water surplus, for example, most of the state's 20 million people live in the parched south. Since these people are loath to move to the north's watersheds, the state's indefatigable engineers have devised a Faustian scheme to move the watersheds south. Ecologists, and a good many other Californians, are appalled...