Several people familiar with the negotiations said executives at Resorts were balking at the request for an additional cash contribution for the bondholders.

Some business executives balk at travel demands out of simple fear of flying.

"Real talent will not be sold," he added, because such creative executives balk at relinquishing intellectual and property rights to products like software.

Since Congress passed a new airline security bill last month, some executives have balked at the new requirements, saying that they will be costly and cause excessive delays.

Porsche will not make a decision until December, but its executives have openly balked at some of the requirements that would go with such a listing.

When presented with the idea for this recording, the executives at Argo balked, wondering how they could market a mix of three such oddly different composers.

They apparently changed their minds when senior executives balked at putting in writing the agreement that would have kept them there.

A few middle-level executives balked.

Many executives liked the script but balked at the girl being ripped apart scene.

But even then, executives at the stations that produce most of the public television programs balked at what they saw as an encroachment on their territory.