Word: skittishness
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...Village Caf?, doubles as a salon for Nanjing's creative population. Painters and performance artists crowd every table, cracking sunflower seeds and chatting till the wee hours. While discussions often center on the struggle to bring modern art to the general public in a tradition-bound country with a skittish government, the crowd also dedicates plenty of time to laughing, drinking tea and making the most of the anti-9-to-5 lifestyle. And visitors, even nonartists, are readily welcomed. In one evening, I was invited to four artists' studios as well as to lunch, afternoon tea, dinner and after...
...life story, Bush loves it when the elite are upstaged by the streetwise. But he repeated the anecdote at the inaugural meeting of his Corporate Fraud Task Force because it reflected his own view: complex reforms of securities law are well and good, but the best way to assure skittish investors that the government is fixing the problem is to nab a few bad guys. Bush got his cue when federal agents hauled away the founder of Adelphia Communications and his sons in handcuffs in front of a bank of television cameras. "This government," Bush said, jabbing...
...life story, Bush loves it when the elite are upstaged by the streetwise. But he repeated the anecdote at the inaugural meeting of his Corporate Fraud Task Force because it reflected his own view: complex reforms of securities law are well and good, but the best way to assure skittish investors that the government is fixing the problem is to nab a few bad guys. Bush got his cue when federal agents hauled away the founder of Adelphia Communications and his sons in handcuffs in front of a bank of television cameras. "This government," Bush said, jabbing...
...that standard. Harken's case, he told reporters, was one in which "the rules aren't as specific as one would expect, and therefore the accountants and the auditors make a decision." Hundreds of companies have restated their earnings in the past two years--one reason investors are so skittish...
...team that built a copy of the polio virus by assembling more than 7,000 base pairs of DNA to match a published record of the virus's genetic code. Some scientists say the research, while an impressive technical feat, creates needless fears in a population already skittish about anthrax and smallpox. "Why did [Wimmer] pick a human disease which conjures up terrifying images?" asks Stanford University biowarfare expert Steven Block, who points out that scientists have long known that DNA can be strung together in a lab. "It's being done more for effect and less for the advancement...