Word: skittishly
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...view, would be to describe that reality as dispassionately and accurately as possible. The world has its being outside the fanciful brain of the exaggerator, a romantic whose business is to distort reality. Still, in the late 20th century, where reality is not stable, where it is instead erratic, skittish, apocalyptic, discontinuous, monstrously surprising (the Holocaust, for example, was an event far beyond the vocabularies of exaggeration), then it is hard to know what is an overstatement and what...
...nuclear arsenal. He remarked that NATO contingency plans include the option "to fire a nuclear weapon for demonstrative purposes" to deter a massive conventional-force Soviet thrust into Europe. Haig did not say where this warning shot would be detonated. His point, mainly lost in the ensuing response among skittish European allies, was that the U.S. would attempt to contain any future European conflict at the lowest possible level. The following day, Weinberger went before the same committee and directly contradicted Haig's warning-shot-across-the-bow doctrine. Something of the sort had been suggested...
Even then, the Soviets remained skittish: 31 hours after the rescue, signal flares lit up the night sky. The Swedes dispatched another rescue team. It found no emergency, just anxious crewmen who wanted to know the whereabouts of Commander Gushin and his navigator. Asked one Soviet sailor: "Are they your prisoners...
...most standards (the predicted U.S. rate for 1981: less than 1%), but one that conceals growing problems such as a scarcity of gasoline and diesel fuel and spot shortages of butter, cheese and meat. An inflation rate of 20% has more than wiped out gains in wages. Foreign investors, skittish about recent government takeovers of the Zimbabwe Banking Corp., the country's most prominent chain of newspapers and Caps holdings, a pharmaceutical company, have shied away from financing new projects. Exports of important mining and agricultural products have been seriously affected by cutbacks, falling prices and transport problems, causing...
...main problem was that skittish investors were selling their francs for sounder currencies, like the German mark. In a single week, the Bank of France spent $1.5 billion buying up francs to preserve their value. To help ease the strain, eight European countries agreed to a complex realignment of their currencies that had the net effect of devaluing the franc 8.5% against the mark...