Word: timidity
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...Health-care delivery in this country seems to serve the well-being of doctors and insurance companies, but hardly anyone else. Let's hope that the introduction of PSROs, timid first step that it is, represents a movement toward bringing accountability into health care. As the nation's largest union of health-care employees (including a handful of doctors), we believe that shedding light on medical practices and patient care in America will benefit the taxpayers, the workers and, most of all, the patients...
...states, including Colorado, Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin, already make some use of video-taped testimony to avoid delay for both the court and the witness; after testimony is recorded at the witness's convenience, it can be introduced at any time. But such piecemeal use of TV is timid indeed compared to an undertaking that concluded last week in Sandusky, Ohio...
...feel guilty or timid about applying anything I've suggested. The stereo industry, through differentiation of product, is trying to exploit your ignorance about electronic equipment. No dealer is ever selling an item below cost and it's your right to get the lowest price...
Congress had been lazy, acquiescent, timid and parochial for years. Nixon regarded himself as the tribune of the Silent Majority. More than that, he had a natural dislike of the give-and-take of press conferences and consultations with Congress or committees, and he tried to shape the presidency to his own needs. Watergate, Schlesinger says, was merely the result of an extraordinary accretion of power and secrecy that was bound to explode somewhere...
...staff of 17 servants. Still another factor: Black Diamond and Gin-Seng, the last of the dynasty of pug dogs who pranced about the Windsors in a thousand news photos. "We are all happier here, and safer than in a hotel," says the duchess. "I have always been timid," she admits. "Thunderstorms frighten me, and I won't travel in planes if I can avoid...