Instead, Congress insists on thinking small, settling for timid research programs and unnecessary tax breaks for established industries that, as it happens, provide lots of campaign money.
Considering all the noise over steroids, one would expect Major League Baseball to move briskly to strengthen its laughably timid drug-testing program.
"In the midst of real boldness in bailing out the banks, we get this timid, soft, voluntary conditional program".
Obama took issue with Stewart's suggestion that his health care program was "timid".
Instead they have taken the timid way out by suspending his program for two weeks, effective April 16, in obvious hopes that the sordid affair will blow over.
With unemployment already at 9.5percentt and likely to exceed 10percentt, much higher than White House officials predicted back in February, Mr. Obama has been facing attacks that his $787 billion stimulus program was either too timid or wrong-headed or both.
Like Feldman, his writing aims to return danger and glamour to books, as other programs' alums crank out timid couplets aimed to please the elite instead of his or her individual soul.
And if you wonder why so many Democrats are too timid to pose a robust recovery program for regular people, financed by the very wealthy, the Wall Street connection provides much of the answer.
She describes herself as "a pretty timid singer," who found in the Music Together! program "that I had a voice that invited participation — that hey, my voice isn't so bad".
The few times the program does provide personal glimpses it gets timid.
