Since then the government's handling of the project has been marked by delay, indecision and timidity.
Those who gave up caved in to "the age of timidity, " says the 55-year-old engineer.
The Great Depression and the Japanese Deflation remind us of the dangers of timidity and hesitation.
Much of the world is now paying for their timidity: witness the increasingly dark economic backdrop.
Timidity, on the other hand, will boost the odds that we'll go the way of Europe.
It also suggests a bit of political timidity before the election albeit a hard earned apprehension.
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In truth it is not speculation but indecision and timidity that are at fault.
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Everyone knows fiscal and monetary policy in Japan was a disaster of timidity and conservatism.
Business as a whole is disappointed by the timidity of the government of Manmohan Singh.
Researchers see few limits, other than human timidity, to how far they can go.
And Mr Chirac is right to chastise the government for timidity on reforming pensions.
To be fair, cynicism and timidity over reform are not unique to the post-communist bit of Europe.
But, on the whole, most of the hard questions for Mr Gore should revolve around his timidity.
Today, look at the timidity on gay marriage and you wonder whose willing to take any positive stands.
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Mr Khatami was thwarted by his own timidity and by the despotism of the conservative forces ranged against him.
Neither of these two strategies cynicism or timidity will work politically, and neither serves the interests of seniors or the country.
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Its critics mistake this for either timidity or a failure of vision, but this is farthest from the truth.
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His desire to become an actor was probably triggered by timidity, he says.
Still, Mr Ligi is impatient with the timidity of reforms in southern Europe.
At a global level, the answer is surely that boldness beats timidity.
The childlike timidity and stripped-down honesty of the vocals on stand-out tracks "Shaky Science" and "CFHC" echo Sufjan Stevens and Kimya Dawson.
You know, what really amazes me about this government is its timidity.
Deciding to not touch them is an exercise is restraint, not timidity.
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The grand coalition and its SPD-Green predecessor installed checks on the future rise of pension costs (and, in moments of timidity, weakened them).
Until now, managerial timidity, a lingering belief in providing jobs for life and fear of bad publicity have kept these workers in jobs.
Since the big companies brought in thugs to bust militant trade unions in the 1950s, Japanese labour has been noted for its timidity.
And so its social timidity got brushed over with benign neglect.
Not disastrous, perhaps, but certainly demoralising and largely the result of the Berlusconi government's timidity over introducing the root-and-branch structural reforms that Italy so badly needs.
Even in the announcement itself, you could detect the government's timidity.
Consumer mistrust and timidity has been trotted out as a threat to e-commerce for as long as there have been public opinion surveys about the Internet.
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