Word: caution
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...competition nervous, but she has nearly demolished it. Her friends call her style "brutal." She stays in her patented crouch through her entire run. More prudent racers straighten up from time to time-at the cost of a fraction of a second-as emergencies dictate. Proell disdains such caution and her total abandon has already won her two World Cups. She is assured of a third before the spring thaw. This season she won all eight women's downhill races, becoming the world's first skier-male or female-to score a sweep in one of the three...
Moynihan's book has two aspects--the journalistic and somewhat biased one, and an equally questionable analytic one. The Politics of a Guaranteed Income is interspersed with terse commentary such as: "Men who counsel caution in a president do him no disservice, but they do not add much to his day. At the very top of government there ought to be some occasional moment of high spirts, of brave abandon." This may be true, but when...
Tokyo last week announced that Japan would soon send a delegation to Hanoi to discuss reconstruction and possibly the establishment of diplomatic contacts. On White House instructions, U.S. Ambassador Robert Ingersoll promptly showed up at the Japanese Foreign Ministry to caution Japanese officials not to sidle up to North Viet Nam before the cease-fire had proved effective-and before Henry Kissinger had made his appearance in Hanoi. Result: the Japanese mission will almost certainly be postponed...
...research procedures; for example, they have conducted some of their experiments in highly informal settings. They have been lax about screening potential recipients of the drugs; indeed, they have urged many who have expressed a casual interest in the drugs to try them for themselves. Far from exercising the caution that characterizes the public statements of most scientists, Leary and Alpert, in their papers and speeches, have been given to making the kind of pronouncement about their work that one associates with quacks...
...Calhoun is exercising the "proceed with caution" approach when it comes to the Harvard ball club. Particularly worrysome is the bench strength of the Crimson. "They can wear you down, when they can bring in so many talented bodies," he said...