She seemed to equivocate on some things like whether illegal immigrants should be able to get driver's licenses.

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Not once did Ms. Currie equivocate on the central fact Ms. Lewinsky asked her to retrieve the gifts.

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"I am not one of those who believe we should moderate, equivocate or otherwise abandon our principles, " Jindal said.

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Still, even more than Thompson, Vauchez has a shameless tendency to equivocate.

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One could argue that we just saw it a few weeks ago when superstorm Sandy drowned New Jersey, but the difficulty in tying a single storm to the overall climate leaves just enough room for doubters to equivocate.

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