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With last fall's surprising collapse of the Asian economies, Western investors have grown skittish about all "emerging markets."
Why have America's Arab allies from Operation Desert Storm been so skittish about a sequel?
a skittish Hollywood megastar.
How their dream cracked up, resulting in the pablum of today's PBS, and how PBS became Washington's most politically skittish organization, is the subject of James Ledbetter's brief history, Made Possible By ...
A piece suggests that Americans are not as skittish about battle casualties as the conventional wisdom dictates: During the Gulf War, 84 percent of Americans backed the use of ground troops.