Word: skittishly
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...kidnappers are indeed members of the skittish terrorist group and not simply some of the pirates for which the region is notorious, American tourists James and Mary Murphy, of Rochester, N.Y., may be even luckier than they first thought to have escaped their captors. Those currently held captive at an undisclosed location in Philippines waters include citizens of Finland, France, Germany, Lebanon, Malaysia and South Africa. But if they had managed to hold onto the two Americans who escaped during the raid on the Sipadan resort, that might have tempted the kidnappers to aim high in their demands. Although...
...always going to be a "black Monday" on Asian and European markets, but Wall Street saw the beginnings of a skittish recovery. After a day of see-saw trading, NASDAQ had clawed its way back a healthy 6 percent gain following its Friday plunge, while the Dow had soared by 217 points. Earlier, traders spooked by New York's frightful Friday fled Asian markets in droves, shaving 7 percent off Tokyo's Nikkei index and 8.6 percent off Hong Kong's Hang Seng. London's FTSE fell 4 percent to a six-month low in the first minutes of trading...
...websites every day must be an irresistible lure to any hacker with a larcenous bent. Last week e-tailers were sweating over reports of an international cybertheft that for pure nerve, craft and brass rivals any ever tried before. If the FBI doesn't crack the case soon, skittish consumers, who had just started growing comfortable with the idea of Web shopping, could grow uncomfortable in a hurry...