Loath

From a report:

NGO officials are loath to put a figure on lives potentially saved or

additional people helped if the money spent on transportation went to

food instead, but one analyst said it could roughly double the number

of beneficiaries based on the assumption that 70-80 million people now

receive US food aid annually.

This must be a record, as NGOs are wont to slap a figure usually with a lot of zeroes onto anything that moves (and doesn’t!).  But we know we are still in familiar territory with ‘roughly double’ and then the estimated figure in millions which means that they were not really loath after all.