Word: caution
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...task, they reason, and the President can later be brought back on stage when all parties are ready to reach a consensus in the fresh light of reason. Clearly, Nixon cannot wait too long before committing the prestige of his office to finding that consensus. Still, his instinct for caution has proved sound before...
...ECONOMY. Confidence among consumers and businessmen continued to rise, but it was tempered with caution and a lingering sense of confusion. The New York Stock Exchange's Dow Jones industrial average leaped to a high of 908.37 during trading last week; it closed at 908.15, up from 880.91 the week before. Chemical Bank, the nation's sixth largest, made an across-the-board cut on consumer loans and pared its mortgage rate by .5% to 7%. Retail sales round the country hovered near their prefreeze levels, except for a last-minute scramble to snap up untaxed foreign-made...
Substantial Realignment. Much of the caution in the world's money markets is a consequence of increasing uncertainty over just how long the Administration will keep the 10% import surtax in effect...
...three days of marathon talks that ran for a total of 23 hours in West Berlin, the Big Four ambassadors (U.S., France, Britain and Soviet Union) were tantalizingly close to a broad agreement that would resolve important aspects of the long unsettled status of the isolated city. Washington officials caution that "while we are fighting over relatively few words, they're very important words." The negotiations will resume briefly this week, and could result in final agreement then or when they are reconvened in mid-September...
...when I came back I knew where to put my feet down with sufficient caution." The first thing to explode was, of all things, his bat. In his first start, Blue, one of the few switch-hitting pitchers in baseball, cracked a three-run homer to help the A's to a 7-4 win. In his second outing, he hurled a one-hitter against Kansas City. His fourth time out he stunned the hard-hitting Minnesota Twins with a no-hitter. The Blue Blazer...