Word: timide
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...charge of FAA "lethargy" can be laid solely against Bond, an expert on aviation law and a private pilot himself. The most dramatic-and eventually disastrous-evidence of the agency's seeming reluctance to crack a whip over McDonnell Douglas was its timid handling of the DC-10's notorious cargo-door problem. FAA inspectors were aware that a cargo hatch blew off during certification tests in 1970. The agency ordered the problem corrected. Yet another door burst open over Windsor, Ont., in 1972, luckily without causing any deaths. Even then, the FAA reached "a gentleman...
PRESIDENT CARTER'S new energy proposals, calling for the gradual decontrol of domestic oil prices and a windfall profits tax on the oil companies, represent a timid, incomplete attempt to resolve the nation's energy problems. Carter has surveyed the sorry state of energy supplies in America, concluding that higher oil prices under decontrol will force conservation, increase production and make alternative energy technologies more price competitive...
...Policy Failures. In contrast to the opportunistic Soviet policy, several panelists felt, U.S. policy in the crescent has been myopic and timid. They complained that the Administration has done little more than issue statements outlining what it would not do. Policy, said Helms gloomily, "is sort of sloshing around. We have statements from our leaders that they don't want to interfere in anybody's internal affairs ever again. But if as a nation we are constantly saying that we don't want to interfere with anybody's national life under any circumstances, then...
...large relief paintings by Frank Stella, with their flapping, exuberant forms slathered in paint, crayon and glitter: a splendid yawp of vitality. Beside such work, nearly all the abstract painting being done by artists of Stella's generation in the U.S. today looks ei ther timid or bored. Among younger artists, the abstract impulse tends to be more plainly decorative, less ambitious: witness the elaborately imbricated patterns of Joyce Kozloff s Mad Russian Blanket, or the high-keyed color swatches, like details from Matisse's wallpaper back grounds, of Kim MacConnel's Baton Rouge, 1978. There...
Last week a second Carnegie Commission issued another report to correct the system's "fundamental flaws." Though it has some good ideas, Carnegie II is, like Carnegie I, excessively timid, short on vision and long on words-particularly long words...