Word: timidly
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...senior military officers who hope there is a little Winston Churchill in Robert Gates. The incoming Secretary of Defense will take over not only two grinding wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but a top-level military brass that has, in the opinion of many officers, been too timid about demanding what was needed to win those wars...
...gripes about the handouts Europe gives its farmers, refused.) "It's as bad as I've seen it in 46 years," says Brian McGuigan, an industry veteran and former managing director of McGuigan Simeon Wines, the nation's second largest wine firm. Viewed from Australia, the French measures seem timid and slow. Australia's 20 biggest winemakers account for 85% of the market, and they have reacted much faster to the crisis, cutting prices and taking the financial hit early by writing down the value of their stock. Some grape growers are pruning back vines or switching to citrus...
...before he ousted the Dean that spearheaded the effort. The faculty still cannot agree; no single recommendation from the General Education Committee has been voted on yet. The new Core program that the Committee on General Education put forward last week is a pragmatic salve for a timid soul. It does not say exactly what graduating Harvard College students should know, only that it be “relevant.” I suppose this excludes Literature and Arts B-48, “Chinese Imaginary Space, b”ut it does so little else. Does knowledge of Literature...
Viewed from Australia, the French measures seem timid and slow. Australia's 20 biggest winemakers account for 85% of the market, and they have reacted quickly, cutting prices and taking the financial hit early by writing down the value of their stock. Some grape growers are pruning back vines or switching to citrus or almonds. Even so, Sam Tolley, chief executive of the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation, the government body that oversees the wine industry, reckons it will take at least an additional two years before supply and demand get back in line...
...activist attempting to set up a Green political party, have been detained or jailed for speaking out. But Wen, a Dalian native who was inspired to take up the cause as a teenager after watching antiwhaling actions by Greenpeace on TV, argues that most local environmental groups are too timid to stir much public interest. "To get publicity in the Chinese media, you need the sort of provocative actions that Greenpeace used to do," he says. "Most groups don't want to do anything that would threaten their existence...