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The reason that Mr. Bush and his gubernatorial backers are loath to support a permanent ban is they tend to rely heavily on sales taxes to fund their state governments.
In its editorial advocating that the DOJ and FBI abandon their current policy against the use of computer encryption technology the feds are not at least indirectly privy to, the NYT explains President Clinton's failure to oppose this law enforcement stance thusly: "[S]ince Attorney General Janet Reno has protected Mr. Clinton from an independent counsel on campaign finance, the White House is said to be loath to oppose either her or Louis Freeh, the F.B.I.
Dole is "reluctant," "reticent," and "loath" to discuss it, claims the press corps.
Almanzo Wilder, 9, is loath to go to school because he hates watching the school's five toughest teens beat up yet another teacher and drive him out of town.
True, when pressed, top economic advisers have called the spending caps "totally unrealistic," but they are loath to press this point too loudly, lest it call into question both their own plans for additional "investments" (read spending and tax breaks) and the president's embrace of the limits in the first place.