Atari got cold feet, and dropped the idea -- and the game -- before completion.
That reduces the cancellation rates even if prices fall or buyers get cold feet.
But Greece's official creditors have their own reasons to get cold feet about another rescue package.
Also, acquirers are getting cold feet as the possibility of a coming recession mounts.
It is easy to imagine their own lenders getting cold feet if credit conditions turn.
The slow start, many reckon, is attributable to a severe case of cold feet.
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Immediately after, every distributor they had with any business sense got cold feet.
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But Gerald has an intricate system to ensure he doesn't get cold feet.
But there are signs that the Labour Party hierarchy is having cold feet.
And a few signatories of the original petition have already had cold feet, and decided not to resign after all.
After taking a look at PAL's books and labor problems, however, the two airlines got cold feet and withdrew their bids.
Many EU members have cold feet about further enlargement of their club.
The deal faltered mainly because Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank, which had provided two-thirds of Krupp's DM15 billion war chest, got cold feet.
Those guarantees would partially fund only three to four reactors, and even those would be problematical if construction consortiums felt Washington was getting cold feet.
Even men can strap on stilettos for male-division runs in Buffalo, New York and the Philippines, refusing to let female footwear give them cold feet.
Now, Milosevic has cold feet over arresting Karadzic and Mladic.
While Pricewaterhouse gave no reason for its sudden departure, Specialty Foods says the accounting firm got cold feet about the interest deductions the company was taking on its payouts to unitholders.
If the Russians refuse to accept the phraseology NATO offers them before July 8, when the alliance is to gather in Madrid to issue invitations, some Europeans could get cold feet.
Marzouki makes numerous references to Williams having cold feet.
Those who entered into sub-prime loan agreements were convinced otherwise, and the resulting cascade of foreclosures did far more to damage the economy than a collective case of cold feet about buying ever could.
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This is no time to get cold feet.
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"The governments get cold feet for one reason, Desertec needs too much support in tax money - all the public budgets are over borrowed - and tax money is not easily available, " Mr Fell said.
But investors' cold feet also might have something to do with what behavioral economists call the "disjunction effect, " the idea that people don't think one step ahead when making decisions because they're waiting for more information.
Just as a number of pieces of legislation addressing the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure like power and water systems are being introduced into the Congress, the New York Times reports that some lawmakers might be getting cold feet.
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Exelon is already getting cold feet.
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Still, fearing that Rempel's editors might get cold feet, Jackson had arranged for an ideologically sympathetic "backup" -- in this case the conservative American Spectator's resident "hit man" David Brock -- to be given the same stories on an embargoed basis.
Next week the BBC is moving Vanity Fair back half an hour to 21.30 to ensure that it does not clash with ITV's popular drama Heartbeat - although instead it will be up against Cold Feet, a new award winning comedy drama.
But the two television series that really secured Portmeirion's place in the popular British imagination were 1960s sci-fi drama The Prisoner (with the village making an eerily jovial setting for the Kafkaesque story), and the more recent Cold Feet, the romantic comedy series whose final episode in 2003 turned Portmeirion into a popular wedding venue overnight.
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