But recent (timid) developments in electronics suggest this industry is aware of its problems.
He pines for Lorraine but is too timid to do anything about it.
Economic turmoil has served in some ways to inspire innovation, but for the timid, it has only served to inspire fear and risk aversion.
Some changes have just gone through parliament, but they are extraordinarily timid.
"He seemed kind of timid, but like an average guy, " said Mr. O'Neill, who was blocked by police tape from reaching his home.
Publishing a tabloid newspaper in New York is not for the timid, but the accusation Cablevision CEO Jim Dolan just leveled against New York Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman is strong stuff even by those standards.
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So when it came time to write, the authors faced a dilemma: Should they release a traditional fitness book and receive industry nods, or create a resource with sass that could make serious waves but risk alienating more timid readers?
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Dr. Gowden later told me that he found me shy and difficult to talk to, but if I appeared timid to him it was because I was not used to dealing with people apart from my family and the three servants: Paddy, my nanny Kitty Lee, and Norah Maloney, a cheerful woman who lived on a farm in the hills behind Brook Lodge.
Again, her words seemed deliberately targeted for the tabloids and the marginal constituencies of the suburban fringes, but again made her sound timid and less consequential.
Not only do they inhabit a low spot in the office hierarchy and lack experience and skills, but also many are too timid and insecure to assume a leadership role.
Mr Khatami has not given up his reform effort, but it appears ever-more timid.
The more timid ran home, but Ghosananda had chosen his routes deliberately to pass through areas of conflict.
Mr Biedenkopf is the only leading Christian Democrat so far to have publicly opposed Mr Kohl's decision to stand for the chancellorship yet again next year, but there are others, more timid, who share his views.
For others he was too timid, championing the oppressed but disbanding branches of his order when they became politically violent.
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But the next government, under a timid and indecisive Liberal prime minister, collapsed this summer, when the main leftist partners walked out and teamed up with Mr Brazauskas's lot.
Belatedly, Mr Blair seems to acknowledge that he should be seen to make a principled stand over the treatment of these men, but he sounds too much like a timid supplicant.
Gregory's when they took the bread, trying to guess what they were feeling, but I was too proud and too timid to ask either priests or congregants the beginner's queries: Why do you cross yourselves?
Americans have a well-earned reputation for risk-taking, but these days we are something of a timid lot.
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The first was timid, on some local topic, but in the second, my fancy took flight.
But critics insisted that the commission had been too timid, an accusation that Sir John Vickers, the chairman of the commission, flatly denied.
Tiny Saarland proposes a timid one-year extension of primary school, but may fail to enact the needed constitutional change.
Many investors are still timid when it comes to the banking sector, but the sector itself has begun a long-term recovery.
But planned reforms of public spending have yet to bite, and the government has been timid in conceding higher public-sector pay.
But most seem to think the best defence against a legal assault is to produce a relatively timid redistricting plan in the first place.
Tired, timid and woefully off the pace, it doesn't just need a hip replacement, but a reason for living.
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