Word: dithering
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...interpretations regarding Baradar, who was leaving a seminary in a dingy slum outside Karachi when Pakistani operatives, acting on a tip from the CIA, picked him up. The first theory is that Pakistan owed the U.S. big time for knocking out one of their troublesome insurgents and could not dither when the CIA demanded that Baradar be grabbed. But the second theory, put out by local Pakistani journalists with reliable Taliban contacts, suggests that Baradar was dispensable for the Pakistani intelligence since he broke last December with Omar. According to Peshawar journalist Rahimullah Yousufzai, Taliban sources said...
...long career played so many extraordinary women that basically I'm getting mistaken for one." The winner for Most Incoherent Speech would have to go to Drew Barrymore, whose thank-you - in recognition for her work in the HBO mini-series Grey Gardens - was a ditsy dither that seemed to channel both Sarah and Michael Palin...
...small part to prodding by California and other states with progressive governors, attitudes have changed in Washington. But Congress continues to dither over cap and trade, and California is moving ahead. On Sept. 15, Schwarzenegger signed an executive order requiring that the state get 33% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020 - well above the 15% national standard that current climate bills circulating in Congress would require. California is not alone: more than half the states in the U.S. have similar renewable energy standards, and states in the West and the Northeast have begun to form regional carbon...
...Russia to Indonesia to South Korea devalued their currencies and saw their economies crash. The lesson for Geithner was clear. "From my time in Japan and then dealing with the crisis of the late '90s," he once told me, "I got a deep conviction: you don't want to dither...
...world turning Japanese? Even as Japan's domestic economy slips into recession and its politicians dither endlessly, the country's overseas influence is reaching new heights. Limited by a postwar constitution from developing military power, Japan's international clout relies on soft power, the term coined by Harvard professor Joseph S. Nye in 1990 to describe how countries "get what [they] want through attraction rather than coercion." Today, a generation of idealistic Japanese is attempting to sway the world through cultural, social and economic means. Japan doesn't tend to trumpet its efforts - understandable given the nation's imperial past...