Word: skittishness
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...already admitted in a deposition to having had a sexual relationship with Gennifer Flowers, but Mrs. Clinton doesn't mention that.) One imagines the serial infidelities are too painful, too embarrassing. One imagines she doesn't want to expose Chelsea to the gory details. But there is a skittish, elliptical quality to her descriptions of the nonsexual imbroglios that marked her time in the White House as well...
Initially fans were to be offered surgical masks, but there has been such a run on them in the skittish city that too few were available. Instead, bandannas were distributed, which fans were told to wear over their mouths. Few complied. "It was probably the most unhealthy place on the planet," said Kevin Bowers, a Hong Kong resident who attended the tournament. "I didn't take any precautions. But I'm not worried...
...frenzied reporting and editorializing of the last year or so has focused on a very limited number of topics—namely, the threat of terrorism and the embattled peoples of the Middle East. Sadly, the public has proven to be rather impressionable and skittish since those terrible days in September a year ago; other serious issues have fallen by the wayside, overlooked by the frenetic attentions of Americans...
...Skittish, postbubble investors are shying away from bonds that are of investment grade but only barely--what you might call near junk--so these bonds are a good buy now, offering 9.5% or so yields in intermediate maturities. But seek safety in numbers, says Payden. Choose a fund that holds at least 75 or so different bonds rated no lower than Ba. Even if one or two of the bonds sink, you don't go down with them...
...officials know they can't sit still. For months Bush advisers have considered a shake-up of the President's economic team but avoided any moves that might convey the impression that the President's policies had failed. The margin of last week's victory may make Bush less skittish about such perceptions. The White House desperately wants to jump-start the economy in case a conflict with Iraq sends shudders through the global economy. Administration officials say they plan to use their Senate majority early in the new year to make elements of the President's $1.35 trillion...