Word: skittishly
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...Boston came to the attention of church officials there in sex-abuse allegations--a potentially massive pool of victims who could bring suits. "The financial impact of these cases is severe," says Mark Chopko, general counsel for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Chopko points to fragile relationships with skittish insurers and to a Santa Fe, N.M., diocese that was nearly bankrupted in the early 1990s by sex-abuse suits there...
...Axis." And the targets of his ire - Iran, Iraq and North Korea - have started firing back insults, North Korea raising the rhetorical stakes by accusing the Bush administration of "moral leprosy." But what has U.S. allies in east Asia a little more anxious is the warning by the notoriously skittish regime in Pyongyang that Bush's accusations were "little short of declaring a war" and that "the option to 'strike' impudently advocated by the U.S. is not its monopoly." (Translation: Stop talking crazy or we'll start acting crazy...
...Thus do supply and demand meet again, with the skittish consumer setting some very tough terms. The post-Christmas period has always been rife with discounts, as retailers look to unload the last of their leftover winter inventory on shoppers returning unwearable sweaters for store credit. This year the price cuts will go all the way to the bone and beyond, and there are hopes that the bargains (getting plenty of free publicity from economics writers) will draw enough mall traffic to get the job done...
This is the sort of thing that keeps Kamen up at night. There are countless others. High on the list are congenitally skittish regulators who will decide if the Segway is safe and if it will be allowed to roll on sidewalks...
...This is the sort of thing that keeps Kamen up at night. There are countless others. High on the list are congenitally skittish regulators who will decide if the Segway is safe and if it will be allowed to roll on sidewalks...