Word: timide
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Eventual success in removing the sex restriction depends on how many women apply and are endorsed by their schools, and on whether the American secretary of the Rhodes committee, William Barber, changes his previously timid stand on the issue...
...Timid. An expert in constitutional as well as antitrust law, Bork says he was once a "conventional New Deal liberal," but began changing his mind under the influence of conservative professors while he was at the University of Chicago Law School. Graduated in 1953 after being managing editor of the Law Review, he was hired by a top Chicago firm and seemed well on his way to a lucrative position when he became "bored practicing law." He had nearly decided to go into journalism as a FORTUNE writer when Yale Law offered a teaching position. After ten years...
Bork's first official move after taking the Solicitor General's post served notice that his brand of conservatism is neither predictable nor timid. Like 15 other states, Georgia has filed suit to overturn presidential impoundments of funds that were authorized by Congress. Georgia wants the Supreme Court Justices to hear the case directly-without the delays of the appeals procedure.* Bork might well have opposed such a move, preferring to let the question of presidential power languish for a while in lower courts. Instead last month, Bork agreed with Georgia that the impoundment issue should be faced...
...last year they had disappeared, and Chile was forced to plead for rescheduling of more than $2.5 billion in international debts. The country was so polarized in the end that Allende was under simultaneous attack by rightists for being too extreme and by leftists for being too timid...
...background of Dr. Ronald Glasser's chronicle of hospital life are other children with fatal, costly chronic diseases, like the four-year-old boy plagued by unsuccessful kidney transplants. Mary's father stirs up a campaign of timid, deferential parents against the doctors, who never explain...