danced around the issue, vacillate, nationalize, backtrack

Hatoyama now backtracking on Futenma relocation pledge

Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama appears to be vacillating on his party's election pledge to consider relocating a major U.S. facility out of Okinawa Prefecture.(October 9) [more]

What Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman — and a staunch defender of free markets — actually said was, “It may be necessary to temporarily nationalize some banks in order to facilitate a swift and orderly restructuring.” I agree.

The case for nationalization rests on three observations.

Nationalization Gets a New, Serious Look
By DAVID E. SANGER
The Obama administration is dancing around a delicate question: Is the president prepared to nationalize much of the nation’s banking system?

backtrack
intr.v., -tracked, -track·ing, -tracks.

1. To go back over the course by which one has come.
2. To return to a previous point or subject, as in a lecture or discussion.
3. To reverse one's position or policy.

dance
v.intr.

1. To move rhythmically usually to music, using prescribed or improvised steps and gestures.
2. 1. To leap or skip about excitedly.
   2. To appear to flash or twinkle: eyes that danced with merriment.
   3. Informal. To appear to skip about; vacillate: danced around the issue.
3. To bob up and down.

v.tr.

1. To engage in or perform (a dance).
2. To cause to dance.
3. To bring to a particular state or condition by dancing: My partner danced me to exhaustion.

na・tion・al・ize

━━ vt. 国家的にする; （独立の）国家［国民］にする; 国有［国営］にする.
na・tion・al・i・za・tion　n. 国民化, 国有［国営］化.
⇒national

vac・il・late

━━ vi. 揺れる; （心・考えが）ぐらつく, ためらう.
vac・il・la・tion　━━ n.

vacillate

intr.v., -lat·ed, -lat·ing, -lates.

1. To sway from one side to the other; oscillate.
2. To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another. See synonyms at hesitate.

[Latin vacillāre, vacillāt-, to waver.]

vacillatingly vac'il·lat'ing·ly adv.
vacillation vac'il·la'tion n.
vacillator vac'il·la'tor n.