Word: timidness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lowest approval rating in the opinion polls, any false move could tarnish the President's claim that he is uniquely qualified to lead the U.S. through the world's dangerous waters. Up to now, his caution has been considered reasonable; after this week it could be judged timid and indecisive. In this highly charged atmosphere, Democratic campaign rivals and Republicans in Congress are pushing Bush to reconsider his policies. Yet voters could easily see a military commitment in Bosnia -- or anywhere else -- as an electoral gimmick. At the same time, Bush has proclaimed himself the master of the new world...
...frustrated senate president, Dr. John Kitzhaber, father of the proposal. But almost nobody in Oregon -- or Washington -- thinks the fuss about the handicapped is anything but a smoke screen. Oregon's real mistake is that it tried to make tough choices about health care in an election year when timid politicians prefer to avoid the issue like the plague...
...take on any serving of five-alarm chili, no problem, Jalapeno peppers do not faze me. I will always go for the "Hot" salsa; "Mild" is for the timid-of-tastebud...
...zeitgeist was changing. For all his street sass and gutter gargle, Murphy is basically a middle-class star, closer to Bill Cosby than to the new wave of African-American filmmakers (Spike Lee, John Singleton) and rapmasters (all those hot Ices). Their marketable anger made Eddie look timid, irrelevant, a hipper but still compromised version of the old Negro clown -- a white man's black...
...would be the agent of change, the only alternative to the do-nothing status quo of George Bush. Now it is Perot who embodies this anti-Establishment anger, while the Democratic challenger is suddenly relegated to an uncomfortable me-too role as the candidate offering change for the timid voters still loyal to the orthodoxies of two-party politics. As a longtime friend of Clinton puts it, "Bill has to rethink this race because Perot has taken some of the ground that he intended to occupy. But until now Bill has been too tired, and too occupied with the primaries...