Word: dithering
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...hint of a fudge: the A.U. force might stay on as a transition to a U.N. force. It won't stop the killing - the A.U. soldiers are ill-equipped and backed by the weakest of mandates - but it creates another few months in which the world can dither. Amid the diplomatic flurry, and as evidence emerged of a new government offensive in Darfur - Human Rights Watch says government planes indiscriminately bombed civilian-occupied villages in rebel-held areas last week - one powerful voice was noticeably silent: China's. Khartoum and Beijing are close. The China National Petroleum Corp. owns...
...credited as one of the movie's producers, is that loneliness is a fate worse than - well, yes, death. It is not exactly the ghost haunting the attic of this movie's mind. It is, at best, an inconvenience to be surmounted by busy work and romantic dither. What steals over one as this movie stumbles along - it strikes the poses of comedy, without providing any laughs - is a sadness that it refuses to explore. Its characters all seem to be uprooted, plunked down on a sunny Florida shore and obliged to fend for themselves among estranged strangers, filling...
...government continues to dither when it comes to attracting businesses that could help create many new jobs. ExxonMobil has been forced to delay an investment of up to $3 billion in a massive new oil field off the coast of Java. The problem: protracted negotiations with the government and with Indonesian oil company Pertamina, which is being privatized, over revenue sharing and the length of ExxonMobil's contract. In addition, tough labor laws, which among other things make it difficult for companies to lay off workers, discourage hiring at a time when more than 9 million Indonesians are unemployed...
...dishonest or remarkably dense. Does anyone really find it hard to believe that Saddam Hussein prefers to prolong his life rather than face certain destruction at the hands of the most destructive military force ever created? Hussein will work with the U.N. because convincing a huge multinational bureaucracy to dither and delay is much more rewarding that having your house blown...
...this instance, a cuddlesome one. He has an idea of how a man feeling his way along dangerous ground, with no memory to guide him, might behave. Which is warily. He doesn't have a lot of energy to spare for comic quips or romantic dither either. Think of him as the anti...