Word: offendable
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...brave words mask major weaknesses in the pro-democracy movement. International oil customers, hesitant to offend an influential supplier or harm their own recession-plagued economies, are not likely to embargo Nigerian crude. More fundamentally, democracy leaders have been unable to overcome the ethnic rivalries that have stood in the way of a true sense of Nigerian nationhood since its creation. Support is strong in the Yoruba-dominated southwest and almost nil in other parts of the country...
...right, all right -- it wasn't that insensitive! It was simply a matter of seizing seasonal imagery to make an obvious point: some of us seem to be letting ourselves go . . . just a touch, say . . . perhaps an almost imperceptible touch. No, that's bending backwards not to offend. Put it in the hands of, say, a headline writer for a British tabloid...
...freedom of speech on campus. Bus administrators, organizations and students must realize that to maintain Harvard as a center of learning and intellectual discourse we must not do so--so long as their speech doesn't present a clear and present danger to people's safety. Some speakers will offend and hurt us, but we must speak out against them, not silence them...
...eager to offend General Powell, but I am less willing to give offense to gay and lesbian colleagues and gay and lesbian students," he said...
...self-important and reluctant to make changes that might require the smallest amount of political courage. They need a combination of persistent prodding and frequent flattery or they lose their enthusiasm for action. Lacking the strong Democratic majorities in both houses that LBJ enjoyed, Clinton can't afford to offend many legislators from either party. So his partisan approach to his $16 billion budget stimulus was a stupid political move, and the Republican filibuster that killed it was a predictable slap in the face to a politician who should have known better. Similarly, Clinton should have expected Sam Nunn...