Word: skittishly
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...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...
...Jerry Brown of California. Since mid-January, as the others floundered, Tsongas has become Clinton's main challenger in the first primary. Favorable news coverage and his performances in televised debates have also raised him above asterisk status in national surveys. While New Hampshire polls continue to depict a skittish electorate, Tsongas' support is less volatile than that of his rivals, and in one survey late last week Tsongas held a shaky lead. "He's everyone's first or second choice," says Democratic chairman Chris Spirou. Thus Tsongas, the contender who reminds no one of a President, might squeeze victory...
Beijing is skittish enough these days to consider any concession to the West as a step onto a slippery slope. For his part, Bush is fighting efforts in Congress to eliminate China's most favored nation trading status because of its human rights abuses. To fend it off, he needs evidence that the Chinese are ready to improve their behavior at home and abroad...
...contraception as it is about sex and values. American culture is a strange blend of prurience and prudery that tends to lead to the worst of both worlds: movies and magazines that exploit sex and teach kids that it's glamorous and free of consequences, combined with a skittish denial of the facts of life that makes it hard to teach those kids how not to get pregnant...