Word: skittishness
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...didn't share all that with Stan on the morning Metro North commute to Manhattan after the first series ended. We're too prickly with one another about Yankees-Sox matters to wonder aloud whether Mo's getting skittish, or Wells is through for good. By and large, we're polite and considerate with one another as we share our baseball notions. In fact, I was surprised Stan went as far as he did. "Well, there you go," he said. "Season's started. All slates are clean...
...working hour") has wasted no time putting that political capital to work, announcing a wholesale reorganization of the company--splitting it into five groups with such names as "mobility" and "digital home," each of which will focus on different ways consumers use technology. Yet analysts have not stopped being skittish about the company's future. "They need to get their road map stabilized," says Kevin Krewell, editor in chief of Microprocessor Report,a trade magazine. "People in the industry count on Intel to know where it's going. If it swings wildly around, the market gets nervous...
...songs later, frontman Steve Schiltz closed his eyes for a surprisingly delicate falsetto while “Strawberry Fields” keyboards tweeted wistfully over skittish drums; without missing a beat, he doubled over to play a loud, bluesy fuzz riff. Longwave loves to create atmosphere and plays with it this way, painstakingly assembling moods and sending them crashing into each another within songs...
...resumption of hostilities at Najaf, Sadr's supporters throughout southern Iraq have resumed efforts to disrupt the peace. They've been particularly effective in Basra, where Iraqi authorities have been forced to suspend oil exports for the past two days in response to Sadrist threats, helping drive already skittish world oil market to record high prices...
...might not have anticipated such an influence entering the University in 1950. In his 1989 memoirs, Self-Consciousness, Updike casts himself as an awkward and skittish freshman, terrified of the world he found in Cambridge. He reports being particularly afraid of insects, water, and lobsters—an unpropitious set of worries for a young man coming to New England for the first time...