Word: caution
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Jimmy Carter flashed a yellow light-proceed with caution-for the funding of a weapon that most U.S. military strategists consider necessary to avoid such a scenario. The neutron bomb,* they argue, would enable NATO commanders to foil an attack without virtually destroying West Germany in the process, as would be the case if existing tactical nukes were used...
MacArthur's troubles stem from what might be virtues in a literary biography-earnestness, caution, balance. Though the moviemakers clearly admire their subject, they are careful, for example, to dramatize his ravening egomania. A staff p.r. man is always present to arrange heroic news photos of the general, and MacArthur's own concern for image is fully laid out. One cannot complain that they have ignored those aspects of MacArthur's nature that his critics deplored. On the other hand, they have not done much with them, which is to say they have tiptoed...
...passed into history, and it would have been good to have a robust life of him: something that really attacked its subject, taking a strong point of view about him - whether for or against would not have really mattered. The Great Commander never operated in a climate of caution, and there is no good reason why this movie should. Something of the spirit of Patton is what is required. What we get instead is the plodding tone of an official biography...
...University must exercise extreme caution in this undertaking, and in all future dealings of this nature...
...report sees need for the "greatest caution" in deciding about extramarital affairs, but it leaves open "the possibility that there may occasionally arrive exceptions, where such relationships [outside marriage] can truly be 'creative' and 'integrative' for all involved, and therefore morally acceptable." It also says that widowed and divorced people cannot be expected to live as though they were "nonsexual beings...