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Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill was skittish, cautioning about the implications of trying to kill an individual.
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 ...
Maggie is a great role for Roberts, who can be alternately warm and skittish, promiscuous and clammy.
Countries in debt usually prefer raising bonds, which are cheaper to finance than regular loans, but Japan seems skittish about issuing new bonds, which could upset its bond market or provoke scrutiny from credit companies.
Nor is it a country at the mercy of skittish foreign investors who must be persuaded to roll over its debt: Japan is still the world's largest creditor.