When he worked with that timorous vice president, for example, Mr. Grupper urged her to think about colleagues who commanded attention and respect.

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The reporter turns into a sappy parody of timorous liberalism.

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India has had a few of these in the 1990s, and some say that prime ministers who know their tenures will be short try to get more done than the timorous and long-serving.

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But European boards are not timorous.

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The report, which was kept under wraps for two weeks at the timorous request of Mr Zardari's government, raises serious questions about the role in the killing played by Mr Musharraf's regime, which included Pakistan's current army chief, General Ashfaq Kayani, who led the ISI until shortly before Ms Bhutto's murder.

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