Word: timidness
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...which allows government agencies to access the records of public libraries, have provoked much outrage. Little, however, has been said about the treatment of visiting students. The Harvard administration has also chosen to wait out the decision and see how other universities respond first. But this strategy is too timid. MIT president Charles M. Vest has been outspoken about the need to maintain freedom and diversity in universities, with the belief that it is in the best interests of the country as a whole. Harvard’s approach of gaining favor with the government is supposedly beneficial...
...supported the 1979 Iranian revolution, but she was removed from her post by the new government. She eventually established a nongovernmental organization for child welfare and authored a seminal book on children's rights. Ebadi found herself taking on high-profile political cases that other lawyers were too timid to handle. In 2000 she helped document allegations that conservative clerics and politicians were behind vigilante attacks on reformers. The revelations embarrassed prosecutors, and Ebadi was jailed for 23 days on defamation charges. "She was worried, but she didn't let that stop her," her husband Javad Tavassolian, 60, told TIME...
Soon, we took off the training wheels. The ladies asked few questions, preferring instead to drop their friends on their butts. No timid souls on this team. No mercy, either...
...this seems normal when you're undertaking an important reform program. [The low poll numbers] will continue to the end of the year, but should rise again at the beginning of 2004 with a return of growth and employment. Given your commanding majority, some say you've been too timid in pursuing reforms. You mustn't block French society. People take to the streets easily in France, so you have to measure the capacity of the French for accepting reform. We will have achieved four big reforms by our first two-and-a-half years in office: pensions, health insurance...
Eriko Kitagawa announces her presence in the lofty lobby of TBS television network's headquarters in Tokyo as a timid, ruffled-bloused housewife would: a small side step, brief eye contact and a nervous giggle. Soft curls, a conservative skirt and subtle makeup complete her outfit. Is this the scriptwriter who single-handedly brought Japanese television drama to the world stage and at the same time empowered the typically demure female lead? We sit down to?what else??tea, and instantly Kitagawa's sayonara-girl image snaps with her cocky first statement: "I always know what I'm writing will...