Word: skittishly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most probable result is that all TV-news shows will look for more about celebrities, crime and vastly less complex scandals. The safety of GM trucks is exactly the kind of issue that popular news programs should address. But instead of making sure that they do it right, skittish producers and executives will probably be inclined for a while...
...accepting about lesbians," says Mary Ann Humphrey, a former captain in the Army reserves who was discharged in 1987. "Their womanhood is not threatened like a man's manhood is when he's around a gay man." Perhaps women's experience with male sexual harassment has made them less skittish about other forms of torment. Or perhaps it is simply less taboo for women to hug and kiss in public...
Beys' supporters say that he gets the job done and is willing to put his neck on the line--a rare quality among skittish undergraduate politicians--to organize events for students. Critics say Beys short-circuits the democratic process of the council to further his own career...
...Beijing, Patten was stood up by a retired Chinese official who abruptly bowed out of a long- standing luncheon appointment at Government House. Meanwhile, pro-Beijing newspapers in the colony kept up their fusillade of ad hominem attacks on Patten, joined even by moderate members of Hong Kong's skittish business community...
...where it comes from, how it is spent. The April riots led to more than 6,000 insurance claims totaling $775 million, mostly on commercial property. Now, with more damage in the area from the two major earthquakes on June 28 heaping new claims on insurers and frightening already skittish tourists, funds will be scarcer still...